Interface Properties Ltd v Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd
Decision date: 21 December 2004
Neutral citation: [2004] EWCA Civ 1687
Court: Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
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This is an appeal by Interface Properties Ltd against a county court order dismissing its claim that Eagle Star Insurance refused to indemnify it for the theft of a Mercedes and the related declarations of ownership. The insurers pleaded that the vehicle had not been genuinely transferred to the claimant and raised allegations amounting to fraud; the Court of Appeal concluded those findings were not displaced on appeal and dismissed the appeal. The court noted one of the recorder’s adverse findings may have been unfair but held that it did not vitiate the overall decision.
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