Notable Cases
- MURRAY SCOTT -V- COPENHAGEN INSURANCE CO. (reinsurance dispute relating to first Iraq War and destruction of aircraft, including British Airways Boeing 747, at Kuwait Airport; one “event” or multiple “events”)
- RENDALL -V- COMBINED INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA (whether employees fleeing Tower 2 of the World Trade Centre were on a “business trip”, evacuation having been practised flowing earlier attempt at destroying towers by underground bomb in car park)
- EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY POLICY “TRIGGER” LITIGATION (DURHAM & OTHERS V BAI & OTHERS) (mesothelioma; whether cancers caused years after exposure fell to be covered under “occurrence” policy wordings referring to “injuries sustained” and/or “diseases contracted” during the typically 12 month period of insurance)
- SYNERGY V CGU & ORS (avoidance for non-disclosure, broker’s alleged negligence)
- GAN V TAI PING (the Holy Grail of “follow settlements” v “claims cooperation clauses” issues, their proper construction and operation relative to each other)
- GAN V TAI PING (NO 2)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED -V- OIL REFINERIES LIMITED (loss of millions of flowers in Israel, just before Valentine season, due to defective heating oil)
- BRIT SYNDICATE V ITALAUDIT SPA (avoidance in relation to auditors, Grant Thornton, of failed Italian conglomerate, Parmalat)
- NGS V COVAC (unpaid fees in relation to emergency Covid evacuation of individuals from far flung places; summary judgment; incorporation of terms and UCTA reasonableness)
- PARSHALL V SOCIETY OF LLOYD’S (penetration of Lloyd’s of London’s immunity from suit on grounds of “bad faith” in relation to Underwriting Name’s requested reversion to from limited to unlimited liability underwriting)
- ALDRIDGE & ORS V LIBERTY MUTUAL (whether insurer to be held to have waived information provided outside of renewal process to insurer’s claims department)
- ASPEN INSURANCE UK LTD V ADANA CONSTRUCTION LTD (proper construction of public liability and product liability wordings and their inter-relationship within a combined contractors’ liability policy)
- TRADE MICRONISING LTD -V- R J WALLACE (LLOYD'S SYNDICATE 386), J M MURPHY (LLOYD'S SYNDICATE 1161) AND INDEPENDENT INSURANCE CO LTD
- ROYAL & SUN ALLIANCE -V- FRANS MAAS (UK) LIMITED (carriage of goods, CMR)
- EQUITAS -V- BANCO DE SEGUROS DEL ESTADO
- PLANTATION TOURS (1973) LIMITED (T/A BRIMMER HALL ESTATES LIMITED) & WATERSPORTS ENTERPRISES LIMITED -V- THE INDEPENDENT INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
- AIG EUROPE SA -V- QBE INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE LIMITED
- ATLANITCA INSURANCE - PCW SYNDICATES. ATLANTICA INSURANCE - JANSON GREEN SYNDICATES
- GORDIAN RUNOFF LIMITED (FKA GIO INSURANCE LIMITED) -V- BROCKBANK SYNDICATES 861 AND 1209 ("BROCKBANK")
- PCW SYNDICATES -V- TOUCHLINE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED (FORMERLY MALVERN INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED)
- GEOLOGISTICS LEP LTD -V- FINANCIAL SERVICE COMPENSATION SCHEME
- BROCKBANK UNDERWRITING LIMITED (AND OTHERS) -V- HERITAGE INDEMNITY COMPANY
- T&N LIMITED (FORMERLY KNOWN AS TURNER & NEWALL PLC AND TURNER AND NEWALL LIMITED( (IN ADMINISTRATION) (2) THE ASSOCIATED COMPANIES OF T&N LIMITED IN ADMINISTRATION -V- (1) ROYAL & SUN ALLIANCE INSURANCE PLC (2) BRIAN SMITH (SUED ON HIS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF SYNDICATE 45/177 AT LLOYD'S DURING THE UNDERWRITING YEARS 1977 TO 1995) (3) RONALD LAIDLER (PART 20 DEFENDANT) CURZON INSURANCE LIMITED – (Insurance dispute arising out of claims against world’s largest asbestos producer, in administration; construction of exclusions relating to “asbestosis” and “silicosis”; did those words include other asbestos caused cancers?)
- AEGIS ELECTRICAL AND GAS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES CO LTD V CONTINENTAL CASUALTY CO (explosion at refinery; incorporation or not of insurer’s standard terms into insurance contract)
- KVAERNER & OTHERS -V- NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY RE: BETHLEHEM STEEL
- SOCIETE CENTRALE DE REASSURANCE -V- GUY CARPENTER & CO LTD (AS AGENTS FOR MARSH LTD
- EQUITAS & HILL -V- STRONGHOLD
- EQUITAS -V- BANCO DE SEGUROS DEL ESTADO
- MABEY AND JOHNSON V ECCLESIASTICAL INSURANCE CO (losses arising from negligent design of circa 15 unit construction bridges in Ghana and Nigeria)
- BARBER & OTHERS -V- IMPERIO REINSURANCE (UK) LTD
- EAGLE STAR INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED -V- J N CRESWELL & OTHERS
- HOME & OVERSEAS INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED -V- ARKWRIGHT MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY (F M GLOBAL) & PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURERS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
- RE NEW CAP RE (examination on behalf of Ernst & Young,, in Supreme Court of New South Wales, of individuals allegedly responsible for collapse of New Re, for purpose of tracing and securing liquid funds and assets)
- BAKER V MCCALL (insurance dispute, Californian losses, to follow or not; involved cross-examination of former California Supreme Court Justice)
- ST PAUL SYNDICATE 183 -V- CX RE
- ARGONAUT INSURANCE COMPANY & OTHERS -V- FARMERS HOME MUTUAL COMPANY
- BERMUDA FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY & OTHERS -V- KUWAIT INSURANCE COMPANY SAK
- ERC -V- AMERICAN NATIONAL INSURANCE - ACCIDENT AND HEALTH QUOTA SHARE TREATY
- EQUITAS LIMITED -V- (1) AXA GLOBAL RISK (UK) LIMITED (2) - (294) THE OTHER AXA GROUP COMPANIES
- HIH CASUALTY & GENERAL INSURANCE LIMITED (IN PROVISIONAL LIQUIDATION) -V- WURTTEMBERGISCHE VERSICHERUNG AG
- NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY -V- G E FRANKONA RUCKVERSICHERUNGS - AG (FKA ERC FRANKONA RUCKVERSICHERUNGS - AG)
- NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY -V- CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY
- MARINE SPECIAL SERVICES INC -V- THE SHIPOWNERS MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION (LUXEMBURG) LTD
- LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED -V- ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY
- CITY OF LONDON -V- DEUTSCHE AUSLANDS UND RUKVERSICHERUNGS AG (DARAG)
- MUNICH REINSURANCE COMPANY -V- COMMONWEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY
- Arbitration cases, other than for Caudle V Sharp, which was appealed to the High Court, for obvious reason are not shown.