How should the courts approach the scope of an insured’s notification of circumstances to insurers? What, if any, limit to the scope arises from the subject knowledge of the insured? In its most important decision on notification…
A recurring issue in the context of claims-made policies is whether a subsequent claim falls within the scope of a prior notification of circumstances. In Euro Pools, against the background of a number of complex and developing…
In Gardner v Lemma Europe Insurance Company Limited [2016] EWCA Civ 484, the Court of Appeal considered the notification provisions of a solicitor’s professional indemnity policy for the purposes of…
In this judgment, Mr Justice Cooke had to determine the comparative responsibility of placing and producing insurance brokers for failing to advise an insured to make a “block notification” of…
In ARC Capital Partners Ltd v Brit UW Ltd and another [2016] EWHC 141 (Comm), [2016] 4 WLR 18, Mr Justice Cooke had to address some common provisions of a…
