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UK court finds that reinsured violates cooperation clause by waiving potential limitation defense

  • Jorden Burt LLP
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  • United Kingdom, Venezuela
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  • July 30 2008

In a 40 page opinion, the UK Commercial Court considered a situation in which a Venezuelan insurer, Multinacional de Seguros, provided insurance for a producer of liquid aluminum, aluminum ingots and aluminum cylinders

English court denies insurance companies’ request to stay pending a prior-filed case in US district court

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 23 2008

Seaton Insurance Company and Stonewell Insurance Company are involved in litigation with Cavell USA, owned by British citizen Kenneth Randall, over Cavell’s handling of the run-off of their insurance obligations under an administration agreement

UK court finds parties not required to dispense with leave to appeal arbitral award under Section 69 of Arbitration Act of 1996

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 31 2008

Royal and Sun Alliance (“R&S”) reinsured liabilities for certain BAE Companies

Release of claims held to confer exclusive jurisdiction on English courts to decide actions of “fraud”

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • January 20 2009

This is the latest chapter in the transatlantic saga involving the Seaton Insurance and Stonewall Insurance companies

Reinsurer liable under workers’ compensation policy

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2009

PEO Services provided SMJ Environmental with laborers to perform asbestos removal at construction sites

Reinsurer’s claims survive (in part) early dispositive motion

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2009

A court granted in part and denied in part a motion for judgment on the pleadings in a case involving claims by a reinsurer of automobile insurance policies (Lincoln General) against its cedent (U.S. Auto) and the cedent’s affiliates for allegedly intentionally miscalculating amounts owed under certain agreements between Lincoln General and U.S. Auto

Insurer has no standing to seek a declaratory judgment on hypothetical claims

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 15 2008

Tall Tree insured Hewlett Packard, and was reinsured by Munich Reinsurance for amounts Tall Tree was required to pay to Hewlett Packard

Insured’s motion to compel documents granted

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 17 2008

The plaintiff, Bunge North America, sought liability insurance coverage related to its environmental liabilities from, among others, Travelers Casualty

Two-year time limitation for commencing “legal action” bars plaintiff from arbitration

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 16 2008

In this insurance contract case before the Rhode Island Supreme Court, the plaintiff, National Refrigeration, appealed from an entry of summary judgment in favor of the defendant after the plaintiff filed a petition to enforce an arbitration clause in the insurance contract

UK Court of Appeals dismisses reinsurer’s appeal of decision finding creation of reinsurance contract prior to casualty

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 27 2009

We previously posted on November 12, 2008 about a British court's decision holding that a reinsurance contract was created prior to a putatively covered ocean-going casualty, based on certain written exchanges between the parties reflecting their negotiations