Korea National Insurance Corp v Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty AG
Decision date: 24 July 2007
Neutral citation: [2007] EWHC 1744 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
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The claimant (a DPRK insurer) sought enforcement in England of a Pyongyang judgment against reinsurers and applied for summary judgment. The reinsurers sought to amend their defence to allege that a post‑loss meeting varied the reinsurance contract (and that the claimant committed fraud in enforcing Euros payment), but the court refused leave to amend, concluding that the proposed alternative had no realistic prospect of success and would unfairly surprise the claimant.
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