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General Liability newsletter - September 2023

United Kingdom - September 21 2023 Welcome to the latest edition of our general liability newsletter. In this edition we look at changes to the fixed recoverable costs (FRC) regime. We…

Court of Appeal finds in favour of FSCS on scope of the Policyholder Protection Rules (PRR)

United Kingdom - September 14 2023 Tamsin Hyland explores the recent judgment of R (On the application of Manchikalapati v FSCS [2003] EWCA Civ 1006 and its relevance to insurance…

Are settlements covered under liability policies if not consented to by the insurer? Does it make any difference if the insured was told to "act as a prudent uninsured"

United Kingdom - September 13 2023 In the recent case of Technip Saudi Arabia Limited v The Mediterranean and Gulf Cooperative Insurance and Reinsurance Company [2023] EWHC 1859 (Comm)…

The El Niño year and impact on subsidence claims

United Kingdom - July 13 2023 Insurers should be bracing for a wave of subsidence claims arising from the increasingly warm weather. The UN’s World Meteorological Organization…

What does the FRC's proposed corporate governance overhaul mean for D&O exposures?

United Kingdom - July 4 2023 The current 2018 version of the Code is mandatory for premium listed companies and voluntary for private companies, and as such acts as a guide to…

What’s next for PFAS litigation?

European Union, USA - June 26 2023 RPC’s Lucy Dyson explores how growing public awareness of PFAS and the associated health and environmental concerns has seen a rise in litigation in…

Covered: Insurance regulation - Asia edition

Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong, Singapore - June 16 2023 The Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023 has been introduced to establish the statutory foundations for the new risk-based capital (RBC) regime for Hong…

Crypto: issues for solicitors and their PI insurers

United Kingdom, USA - May 31 2023 We explore the types of work lawyers are doing in this area, the risks this work may give rise to and issues for solicitors and their PI insurers to…

How a Supreme Court ruling could cause surge in claims against directors

United Kingdom - May 22 2023 Ben Gold, partner in RPC's professional and financial risk team, explains how a recent Supreme Court case (BTI v Sequana) confirms company directors…

Beware unexploded bombs, proximate causes and …. the unintended consequences of adding clarity

United Kingdom - May 2 2023 It is not that often that the standard UK market War Exclusion, language which for decades has sat materially unchanged, is the basis of a declinature…