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In Parker v Seixo [2010] EWHC 90162 (costs), which concerned the legal costs of a road traffic accident claim, the Court found that it should not consider the reasonableness of an After-The-Event insurance policy premium where the underwriter was better placed to rate the financial risk faced by the insurer and where there was no expert evidence to suggest that the ATE premium was unreasonable. 

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Read More UK: ATE Insurance

Following on from our earlier blog on the High Court ruling that Zurich did not have to pay out for toxic sofa victims on the basis of Land of Leather’s subsequent administration and breach of claims control clauses, it seems that more than 1,500 other victims of those toxic sofas have been handed some good news. 

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Read More UK: Good News for “Non-Severe” Toxic Sofa Victims

In AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropwer Plant LLP v Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC [2010] EWHC 722 (Comm) the High Court ruled that it had jurisdiction to grant declarations and continue an anti-suit injunction to protect an arbitration clause in a contract between two Kazakhstani companies, AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropwer Plant LLP (AESUK) and Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC (JSC). 

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Read More UK: High Court Confirms Anti-Suit Injunction to Protect an English Arbitration Clause

On 12 April 2010, the IAIS published a guidance paper on the “treatment of non-regulated entities in group-wide supervision” (the Guidance), which is available here. 

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Read More International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) publishes guidance paper on insurance groups

In Nicholas G Jones v (1) Environcom Limited; (2) Environcom England Limited and MS Plc [2010] EWHC 759 (Comm), the High Court ruled that an insurance broker must satisfy himself that the duty of disclosure is fully understood by the client. …
Read More UK: High Court provides guidance on the role of the insurance broker in relation to the duty to disclose to insurers

In National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited v HSBC Insurance (UK) Limited Gavin Kealey Q.C., sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, ruled that the National Farmers Union (NFU) were not entitled to a contribution from HSBC (UK) Limited (HSBC) in relation to a payment that they had made to an insured, as this was not a case of double insurance. 

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Read More UK: High Court Rules on the Presence of Double Insurance