In a tower of insurance policies where the primary policy did not contain a choice of law or jurisdiction clause, a clause in the excess policies that purported to follow the choice of law and jurisdiction in the primary...more
In R (on the application of Aviva Life & Pensions (UK) Ltd) v Financial Ombudsman Service & ors [2017] EWHC 352 (Admin), the Administrative Court held that a decision of the Financial Ombudsman that an insurer’s avoidance of...more
A settlement that required the defendant to pay a sum into an escrow account which would be paid out to the claimant in certain agreed circumstances did not itself ascertain a loss for the purposes of the defendant’s...more