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Professional Negligence

Service Issue 49 (August 2026) now available

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Service Issue 49 (August 2026) of Professional Negligence and Liability includes updates to the following chapters:
 

Chapter 3 Limitation
Chapter 4 Strategy
Chapter 7 Architects
Chapter 8 Surveyors and Valuers 
Chapter 9 Solicitors 
Chapter 13 Accountants 
Chapter 14 Clinical practitioners 
Chapter 15 Barristers 
Chapter 20 Insolvency 
Chapter 24 Expert witnesses 
Chapter 26 Fund managers 


Professional Negligence and Liability, edited by Mark Simpson KC, features contributions from over 50 experts, with chapters on professions including Bankers, Architects, Surveyors, Solicitors, Financial Advisers, Accountants, Clinical Practitioners, Public Authorities and Barristers.

Insurance Broking Practice and the Law

Service Issue 38 (September 2026) now available

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Service Issue 38 includes commentary on:

  • Hopcraft and Another v Close Brothers Ltd; Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd (London Branch) (t/a MotoNovo Finance); Wrench v FirstRand Bank Ltd (London Branch) (t/a MotoNovo Finance) [2025] UKSC 33 in which the Supreme Court considered the lawfulness or otherwise of the payment of commission by finance lenders to motor dealers in connection with the finance of hire purchase of cars, where the commission was not disclosed (partly or at all) to the customer.
  • Expert Tooling and Automation Ltd v Engie Power Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 292, in which it considered the meaning of “informed consent” in the context of disclosure of commissions received by an agent from a third party.
  • BDW Trading Ltd v URS Corporation Ltd [2023] BLR 437 and the Supreme Court appeal [2025] BLR 379
  • MS Amlin Marine NV v King Trader Ltd and Others [2026] Lloyd’s Rep IR 141, in which considered pay to be paid clauses and the onerous clause doctrine in English contract law.
  • Motorola Solutions Inc v Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 1667, which considered section 5 of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980.
  • Singh and Another (t/a J & M Properties) v George Weightman & Company [2026] SC AIR 12, which provides a cautionary illustration of the importance of properly pleading causation and quantum in claims against brokers.
  • Watford Community Housing Trust v Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd[2025] Lloyd’s Rep IR 407, in which the broker admitted negligence in failing to advise the insured to notify a data breach to two of three available policies of insurance.

SI 38 also sees updated commentary on the Arbitration Act 2025 and significant updates to Chapter 22 Competition.

Recently published books

Chinese Insurance Contracts: Law and Practice, 2nd Edition

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Chinese Insurance Contracts: Law and Practice was the first systematic text written in English, offering a critical analysis of the major principles, doctrines and concepts of insurance contract law in China. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the many developments within both professional and research environments since its original publication, this second edition also features two new chapters for understanding the law relating to insurance intermediaries and the mechanisms of insurance dispute resolution


The book provides a comprehensive picture of Chinese insurance contract law, to facilitate a wider understanding of the relevant rules of law. Elements of insurance contract law are critically examined, and it presents rules of law on some special types of insurance contract, such as life insurance, property insurance, liability insurance, motor vehicle insurance, reinsurance, and marine insurance. The deficiencies and shortcomings of the law and practice are identified and analysed; suggestions and recommendations on how to reform the law are presented. Chinese Insurance Contracts also offers legal and practical advice to insurance professionals on how to draft clauses to avoid contractual pitfalls. 

Written by Zhen Jing.

Reinsuring Clauses, 2nd Edition

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Now in its second edition, Reinsuring Clauses provides a comparative English/US law study of the full reinsurance clause (as original and follow the settlements/follow the fortunes) and includes a chapter on different types of reinsurance, formation of reinsurance contracts, cut-through clauses, and aggregation clauses. Developments integrated include the presumption of back-to-back cover applied to non-proportionate reinsurance, the meaning of first loss reinsurance explained by the courts, and Section 13A being added to the Insurance Act 2015.

Written by Ozlem Gurses

Lloyd's Law Reports: Insurance & Reinsurance

Access the full archive of insurance and reinsurance reports

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Lloyd’s Law Reports: Insurance & Reinsurance provides coverage of all the most important insurance and reinsurance cases from domestic policies to major reinsurance disputes, from first instance to appeal courts.

Lloyd’s Law Reports: Insurance & Reinsurance provides:
- Unique summary headnotes and keywords, providing a clear overview of the judgment and its implications
- Authoratitive editors providing expert case selections from foreign jurisdictions as well as English law
- Case reports that include full verbatim judgments which can be used in court

The Law of Insurance Contracts

Service Issue 65 (July 2026) now available

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Service Issue 65 can be accessed here. There are updates to Chapters 5, 8, 11, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 28 and 30.

Recent cases discussed include:

  • Tyson International Company Ltd v GIC Re, India, Corporate Member Ltd [2026] EWCA Civ 40; [2026] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 252; [2026] Lloyd’s Rep IR 191
  • Minh v Da Guang Tankers (Private) Ltd; Ocean Tankers (Private) Ltd [2026] EWHC 793 (Admlty)
  • Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Ltd v Ivanishvili [2025] UKPC 53; [2026] AC 533; [2025] 3 WLR 789

Insurance Law Search

Insurance Law Monthly

Current issue available

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Insurance Law Monthly has been providing specialist analysis of key cases, EU Directives and updates in legislation and regulation for many years. Every month, our experts report on the most noteworthy international cases concerning issues including liability, marine, motor, property and business interruption.

The latest issue of Insurance Law Monthly is available here

Lloyd’s Law Reports Citator

2025 Edition: now available

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The 2025 Edition of Lloyd’s Law Reports Citator is now available on i-law.com

  • The Citator is “an essential reference tool for judgments reported in the year 2025”.
  • It is an annual document, in PDF form
  • The Citator indexes cases reported in across our five Law Reports series It also features data from our Plus series of reporting.

Access the new edition of The Citator here.

LLR: Insurance & Reinsurance

ARGOGLOBAL UNDERWRITING ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD AND OTHERS v OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LTD
[2026] Lloyd's Rep IR 413
Insurance (marine) – Perils of the seas – Significance of presumption of fortuity – Seaworthiness – Breach of warranty – Duty of fair presentation – Marine Insurance Act 1906, schedule, para 7.
THE RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT LITIGATION – OPERATOR POLICY CLAIMS
[2026] Lloyd's Rep IR 440
Insurance – Whether insurance co-ordinate or consecutive – Double insurance – Contribution – Marine Insurance Act 1906, section 80 – Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978.

Lloyd's Insurance Law Reporter

FAR OCEAN SEA PRODUCTS PTE LTD V UNITED OVERSEAS INSURANCE LTD
Insurance – Arbitration – Extension of time for appointing arbitrator – Jurisdiction – Policy providing for arbitration as to amount "liability otherwise being admitted" – Whether arbitration could be commenced if any issue of liability outstanding
Online Published Date:  14 Sep 2026
BELLSHILL PROPERTY LTD V BORLAND INSURANCE LTD AND OTHERS
Insurance (property) – Duty of fair presentation – Increase of risk – Effect of failure to notify – Scope of exclusion of damage by fire
Online Published Date:  07 Aug 2026
COMETSAMBRE SA V LLOYD'S INSURANCE COMPANY SA HIG 5321
Insurance (marine) – Freight Demurrage and Defence (FDD) – Renewal of policy – Failure by charterers to disclose – Duty of fair presentation – Material facts – Inducement – Waiver – Insurance Act 2015
Online Published Date:  27 Jul 2026

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