FREE Insuralex webinar: Insurance market in Ibero-America: responses in the post-COVID world

The COVID pandemic that hit the world in 2020 not only shook global health systems, but also impacted with particularly serious consequences in all economic sectors of society. The challenges posed for thousands of companies and states are not yet fully known. However, now that the business, economic and legal uncertainty caused by COVID seems
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Legal obligations when Holidaymaker attacked by Hotel Employee

Holidaymaker succeeds in appeal to Supreme Court for compensation against her UK package travel organiser following ‘broad view’ approach that hotel employee’s guiding actions were ancillary services and not within the exemptions under applicable Package Travel regulations Package travel organisers will be reviewing their booking terms and conditions to clarify the holiday arrangements that they
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Don’t count on cover if diamonds aren’t forever…

Remedies for misrepresentation – Jones v Zurich Insurance Plc The loss of a diamond, with a value of £15,000, from a ring is not the sort of thing that one normally forgets in a hurry. However, a policyholder’s failure to disclose details of the claim made for that loss when proposing for insurance several years
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For the Heart of Everything Football !!

Helen Tilley and Robert Harrison of our Exclusive Member in UK, CPB, discuss recent research on cardiac risks associated with playing football. Following a recent 10 year study of UK footballers, the risk of fatal sudden cardiac events was three times higher than originally thought. What types of activity potentially present a higher risk and
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Andreas Weinzierl Elected President of Insuralex

A new board of directors elected for the global insurance lawyers group Tramposch & Partner´s managing partner Andreas Weinzierl was recently elected as president of Insuralex during its annual meeting. Founded in 2002, Insuralex is a worldwide network of more than 50 independent law firms that specialize in insurance and reinsurance coverage, defense, litigation and
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Assessing insurance claims in light of intentionally missed premium payments

In instances where someone fails to pay an insurance premium and it amounts to a repudiation of an insurance contract, the insurer need not provide an extension for the payment of a premium (grace period) regardless of the wording of the policy. This was held in the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal
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2021 Criminal prosecution of insurance fraud in LatAm

One of the great challenges facing insurers today is to have effective tools against insurance fraud. To this purpose, some Latin American countries have opted to include this type of conduct as a crime in their criminal law. Others, on the other hand, have opted for a generic criminal offense, such as fraud, which could
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Insuralex AGM – 2021 (Zoom)

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PEREYRA & ASOCIADOS (P&A) chosen as the Exclusive Member in Dominican Republic by Insuralex.

Ranked Dominican law firm Pereyra & Asociados (P&A) has announced it has been chosen by Insuralex Global Insurance Lawyers Group, a worldwide association of independent insurance and reinsurance lawyers, as its exclusive member firm in the Dominican Republic. A long running, ranked, acclaimed and renown Law Firm with ample experience and known capabilities, Pereyra &
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Does a broker owe a ‘duty to nanny’?

A summary of the case of ABN Amro Bank N.V. v Royal & Sun Alliance plc and 13 Underwriters and Edge Brokers (London) Limited. With the nature and extent of the fall-out for insurance brokers from the FCA test case yet to fully emerge (though anecdotal evidence suggests the volume of precautionary notifications are substantial),
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