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UK Court Judgment Highlights Febrile Geopolitical Climate for Aviation

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A recent UK High Court judgment has delivered a landmark decision for the aviation and insurance sectors as it ruled in favour of Western lessors seeking multi-billion dollar insurance payouts for aircraft stranded in Russia....more

McGuireWoods LLP

English High Court Judgment Offers Rare Examination of War Risks Insurance

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In a 230-page judgment handed down by Mr Justice Christopher Butcher in the English High Court on June 11, 2025, six aircraft leasing companies secured “one of the largest sums ever awarded by the English courts” (according...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

What Lessors Need to Know: English High Court Rules on Russian Aircraft Losses

The Judgment addressed joined insurance claims brought by major aircraft lessors whose aircraft and engines were stranded in Russia following the imposition of sweeping Western sanctions and Russian government measures which...more

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Success for aircraft lessors in Russian aircraft lessor policy claims

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Background - The English Commercial Court has handed down a highly anticipated judgment in a multi billion-dollar insurance claim arising out of the failure of various Russian airlines to return leased aircraft to lessors...more

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Feasibility of Assignment of Aviation Insurance Claims

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The hundreds of aircraft stranded in Russia, the write-offs booked by many lessors and the anticipated litigation over whether such loss constitutes an insurable event under the contingent all-risk or contingent war risks...more

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