Forum shopping: a question of timing? *

United Kingdom - April 18 2013
Insurance arrangements are often multi-jurisdictional since the risks insured and the markets in which they are placed are seldom in the same place…

Co-authors: Nicole Gow .

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No waiver: Court of Appeal confirms insurers well protected by RORS *

USA - June 6 2012
In Argo Systems FZE v Liberty Insurance PTE and Another (The “Copa Casino”) [2011] EWCA Civ 1572, the Court of Appeal considered whether a failure to raise a breach of warranty defence in a letter declining cover, in relation to a loss under a marine insurance policy, amounted to a waiver of the right to rely on that defence.

Co-authors: Naseer Chia .

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Court of Appeal construes war risks policy exclusion according to its plain meaning *

United Kingdom - May 2 2012
In Atlasnavios-Navegação, LDA v. This new Tax Court decision allows a lawyer to avoid the hobby loss rule and currently deduct the costs of making a documentary movie that might be said to be “for fun,” and interprets for the first time Section 181 (enacted in 2004), which permits deduction rather than capitalization of domestic movie production costs.

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Motor Insurers' Bureau cannot guarantee future unsatisfied payments of road traffic accident damages *

United Kingdom - February 9 2012
In Anthony Nathaniel Bennett v. Leonard John Stephens and Zenith Insurance Company [2012] EWHC 1 (QB), the Court was asked to consider the effect of a consent order (the Consent Order) between the parties and the reinsurer of Zenith, Faraday Underwriting Ltd (Faraday).

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A reinsurance perspective: the aggregation of losses following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami *

Japan - December 23 2011
The converging events that led to the devastation in Japan will raise a number of issues relating to the aggre­gation of losses under reinsurance contracts.

Co-authors: Darlene K. Alt, James A. Shanman.

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