Abortive repairs: a new accident or the unfinished business of an old one?

Stelios Magkanaris, with the Swedish Club in Piraeus and the Association of Average Adjusters, tackles the dilemma of defective ship repair, when speaking at a seminar in London, a biannual event organised jointly by the Association of Average Adjusters and the International Underwriting Association

A three-pronged approach is required when considering the issue of a new intervening cause in contentious instances where maritime casualties have potentially been aggravated by ship-repair defects.