Insurance Law Monthly

Ramsook v Crossley [2018] UKPC 9, an appeal to the Privy Council from Trinidad and Tobago, concerned the authority of a motor insurer to defend a claim on behalf of its assured. The decision contains important comments on the duties of an insurer who chooses to defend a claim towards its assured.

Avondale Exhibitions Ltd v Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd [2018] EWHC 1311 (QB) was to a large extent a factual dispute as to whether brokers owed a duty to the assured to warn of the duty of disclosure and, had they done so, whether it would have affected the disclosure made by the assured.