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Liability of insurers under design and build contracts
In
Encin Remediation Ltd v Canopius Managing Agents Ltd [2007] EWHC 916 (Comm) Cresswell J was required to construe the terms of a professional indemnity policy issued to a company which carried on a civil and environmental engineering business...
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01 August 2007
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Relying on policy defences
Anders & Kern Ltd v CGU Insurance plc [2007] EWHC 377 (Comm), a decision of HHJ Mackie QC sitting as a High Court judge, raises a number of points on the incorporation and construction of policy terms. However, perhaps of greater interest are..
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01 August 2007
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The duties of placing brokers
The general rule is that a producing broker appointed by the assured owes the assured a duty of care, but that in the usual course of events there is no corresponding duty of care owed by the placing broker to the assured. Accordingly, if things go..
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Preventing the reopening of reinsurance arbitrations
The decision of the House of Lords in West Tankers Inc v RAS Riunione Adriatica di Sicurta SpA, The Front Comor [2007] UKHL 4 to refer to the European Court of Justice the question whether an anti-suit injunction can be granted to protect arbitral..
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Claims by dependants of deceased passengers
The Court of Appeal has, in
Phillips v Rafiq [2007] EWCA Civ 74, upheld the first instance judgment of HHJ Richard Seymour QC ([2006] Lloyd’s Rep IR 809; Insurance Law Monthly (Volume 18: December (pp7–9))) and has ruled that clause..
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01 August 2007
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