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This week's edition of Insurance & Reinsurance weekly highlights includes: EIOPA’s technical advice on minimum common standards for insurance...
This week's edition of Insurance & Reinsurance weekly highlights includes: Insurers' application to withdraw Petrofac executives' cover before bribery...
Law360, London: Nine Lloyd's insurers are seeking to avoid covering the criminal defence costs of two former Petrofac International Ltd executives...
This week's edition of Insurance & Reinsurance weekly highlights includes key cases and dates for your diary....
Public liability insurance—essentialsPublic liability insurancePublic liability insurance is a form of liability insurance that indemnifies a...
Subrogation in insurance and reinsuranceWhat is the right of subrogation?In the context of insurance and reinsurance, the right of subrogation...
Insurable interestThis Practice Note considers insurable interest, including insurable interest in construction and liability insurance. It also...
Insurance agents and brokersWhat is the difference between an agent and a broker?Where insurance is transacted through an intermediary, that...
Limitation in insurance and reinsurance claimsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the application of limitation periods in the context of insurance and reinsurance claims. It considers how to calculate when a cause of action accrues and the effect of a limitation period expiring. It also
Insurance & Reinsurance—claims co-operation and control clausesIntroduction to claims co-operation and control clausesAll liability insurance policies are policies of indemnity, under which an insurer agrees to indemnify a policyholder against liability to a third party. The position used to be that
Late payment penalties—inheritance taxWhile interest often accrues on overdue tax, the late payment of certain taxes may also attract a penalty. For information on the interest accruing on overdue tax, see Practice Notes: IHT—payment deadlines on death—Interest on IHT and Interest on late paid
Strike out—making an application to strike out a statement of caseA strike out order can be made either following an application by the parties or on the court's own initiative. This Practice Note deals with the scenario of the order being made following a party's application.Making an application
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