Talbot Underwriting Ltd. v Nausch Hogan & Murray
Decision date: 31 October 2005
Neutral citation: [2005] EWHC 2359 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
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This case concerns a dispute between London insurers (as assignees) and brokers NHM arising from placement of a builders' risks policy for the vessel Jascon 5 and whether Sembawang, the shipyard, was an assured under that policy; the insurers refused Sembawang's claim on the ground it was not an assured. The proceedings were ordered as a trial of preliminary issues on agreed documents and facts, including contested questions about notification, non-disclosure and potential avoidance of the policy. The supplied text does not contain the court's final determinations on those issues.
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