Morrisons v Various Claimants (1 April 2020) Supreme Court

Judgment regarding application of vicarious liability test in Class Action against employer in context of malicious data use Supreme Court corrects misunderstanding of lower Courts’ interpretation of vicarious liability test and decides Morrisons supermarkets were not vicariously liable for their employee’s conduct The Supreme Court ruling of WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc v Various Claimants [2020]
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Covid-19: Some reinsurance perspectives

One hundred years after the Spanish flu pandemic, Marsh and Munich Re, in May 2018, launched an innovative parametric insurance product, PathogenRX. This provided insurance against business interruption caused by a pandemic. In October 2018, Marsh presciently observed in a paper entitled “Pandemic Readiness: Risk Finance and Mitigation Strategies”: “Although recent pandemics and epidemics have
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Covid-19: Insurance Implications

Life, travel and event cancellation insurers closely engage in the rapidly unfolding global development of COVID-19 and prepare for the next few months. CPB Partner, Helen Tilley, comments on the insurance implications alongside local perspectives from Insuralex network member law firms in Italy, France, Spain and Japan The 2019 Novel Coronavirus that originated in the
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: WHERE DO THE CLAIMS FALL?

Amazon Go Grocery, the first full ‘cashier-less’ supermarket, opened in Capitol Hill this week. With the increase in the use of Artificial Intelligence and computers carrying out roles that had previously been undertaken by humans, this article considers the benefits as well as the risks – particularly from the perspective of the insurance industry and
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