LLR: Insurance & Reinsurance Plus

THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY HISCOX ACTION GROUP v ARCH INSURANCE (UK) LTD ARGENTA SYNDICATE MANAGEMENT LTD ROYAL & SUN ALLIANCE INSURANCE PLC MS AMLIN UNDERWRITING LTD HISCOX INSURANCE CO LTD QBE UK LTD ARCH INSURANCE (UK) LTD v FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY

Insurance (business interruption) – Covid-19 – Notifiable disease – National lockdown – Whether business interruption policy extensions responded to loss.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 1

CORPORIS SP Z O O v GEFION INSURANCE A/S

Insurance (motor) – Claims representative – Whether service of legal proceedings can be effected on claims representative – European Parliament and Council Directive 2009/138/EC, article 152.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 2

LEE v STRELNICKS SOUAID v NAHAS CASSIM v NGUYEN RIXON v ARSALAN

Insurance (motor) – Measure of damages in tort – Cost of hiring replacement vehicle –Mitigation of loss.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 3

HERCULITO MARITIME LTD AND OTHERS v GUNVOR INTERNATIONAL BV AND OTHERS (THE “POLAR”)

General average – Vessel kidnapped and held to ransom by pirates in Gulf of Aden – Shipowners paying ransom for release of vessel – Shipowners seeking to recover ransom payment from bill of lading holders as general average contribution – Charterparty providing for charterers to pay premiums for war risks and kidnap and ransom insurance – Whether relevant charterparty provisions incorporated into bills of lading – Whether shipowners precluded from recovering contribution from bill of lading holders.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 4

IRWELL INSURANCE CO LTD v WATSON AND OTHERS

Insurance – Claims made in employment tribunal against insolvent employer – Whether tribunal having jurisdiction to determine the liability of the employer’s insurers – Effect of arbitration clause – Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010, section 2 – Arbitration Act 1996, section 9.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 5

HYPER TRUST LTD v FBD INSURANCE PLC

Insurance (business interruption) – Covid-19 pandemic coverage – Extension for disease and closure of premises – Causation – Indemnity period – Trends clause.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 6

SPIRE HEALTHCARE LTD v ROYAL & SUN ALLIANCE INSURANCE PLC

Insurance (liability) – Aggregation – Indemnity limited to all losses arising from one original cause – Two groups of patients subjected to misconduct by one surgeon – Whether one or two original causes.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 7

MOORE v IAG NEW ZEALAND LTD

Insurance (property) – Aggregation – Successive earthquakes – Whether earthquakes constituted a series of losses or events – Causation.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 8

RE MURRAY (DECEASED) CRUMMER v AAI LTD ABN 48 005 297 807, TRADING AS AAMI

Insurance (householder’s liability) – Policy excluding liability for death or injury of anyone who usually lives at the insured address – Meaning of exclusion.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 9

AXIS CORPORATE CAPITAL UK II LTD AND OTHERS v ABSA GROUP LTD AND OTHERS

Reinsurance – Conflict of laws – Whether reinsurance agreements contained exclusive jurisdiction clauses – Anti-suit injunction – Declaratory relief – Senior Courts Act 1981, section 37.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 13

GEMMELL v KSL HAIR LTD AND OTHERS

Insurance (liability) – Claim for assault and negligence in performing hair transplant procedures - Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 14

RAWSON HOMES PTY LTD v ALLIANZ AUSTRALIA INSURANCE LTD

Insurance (construction) – Hailstorm giving rise to damage to 122 roofs – Application of deductible – Whether one event or 122 events – Whether one claim or 122 claims.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 15

IN THE MATTER OF CERTAIN OF THE MEMBERS AT LLOYD’S FOR ANY OR ALL OF THE 1993 TO 2020 (INCLUSIVE) YEARS OF ACCOUNT, REPRESENTED BY THE SOCIETY OF LLOYD’S IN THE MATTER OF LLOYD’S INSURANCE CO SA IN THE MATTER OF PART VII OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS ACT 2000

Insurance (transfer of insurance business) – Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, Part VII – Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Control of Transfers of Business Done at Lloyd’s) Order 2001 (SI 2001 No 3626) - Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Control of Business Transfers) (Requirements on Applicants Regulations) 2001 (SI 2001 No 3625).

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 16

CATLIN SYNDICATE LTD AND OTHERS v AMEC FOSTER WHEELER USA CORPORATION AND ANOTHER

Insurance (liability) – Conflict of laws – Anti-suit injunction – Binding effect of exclusive jurisdiction clause – Whether arbitration clause incorporated – Senior Courts Act 1981, section 37.

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. IR Plus 17