UK, Contract Interpretation, Insurance Litigation

Service Charge Obligations Do Not Include a Duty to Pay Inflated Insurance Commissions (Updated)

Mayer Brown on 7/7/2025

This reverberations from London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas Limited [2025] EWHC 1247 (Ch) will be felt throughout the commercial property industry, and we predict it will contribute to a much needed...more

Service Charge Obligations Do Not Include a Duty to Pay Inflated Insurance Commissions

Mayer Brown on 6/26/2025

The reverberations from London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas Limited [2025] EWHC 1247 (Ch) will be felt throughout the commercial property industry, and we predict it will contribute to a much needed...more

Briefcase Quarterly Update: Key Real Estate Cases - March 2021

BCLP on 3/26/2021

The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and others [2021] UKSC 1 - What was it about? ..The Supreme Court gave its view on various business interruption insurance policy clauses. ..The case was...more

Supreme Court hands down its judgment in the COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Test Case

BCLP on 1/15/2021

The UK Supreme Court in the Test Case on Business Interruption Insurance brought by the FCA on behalf of policyholders has decided that the FCA’s appeal (on behalf of policyholders) should be substantially allowed, with...more

Blog: Supreme Court Finds in Favour of Policyholders in FCA COVID-19 Test Case

Cooley LLP on 1/15/2021

This morning the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the FCA COVID-19 test case, heard on a leapfrog appeal (bypassing the Court of Appeal) from the first instance decision of Lord Justice Flaux and Mr. Justice Butcher....more

What to expect from the FCA Test Case appeal to the Supreme Court

BCLP on 11/13/2020

On 16 November all eyes will turn to the Supreme Court as a 4-day hearing commences to determine the appeals of the FCA, the Hiscox Action Group, and six of the original eight insurers who were party to the FCA’s Test Case. ...more