Lexington Insurance Company & Ors v Multinacional De Seguros SA (Rev 1)
Decision date: 23 May 2008
Neutral citation: [2008] EWHC 1170 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
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This commercial judgment concerns reinsurance of a Venezuelan insurer (Multinacional) by Lexington and others under seven reinsurance slips and whether a Claims Settlement Clause was incorporated and breached. The court accepted that the clause was incorporated and found that a letter of 3 April 2002—contrary to an agreed strategy and likely to encourage the insured by suggesting the time‑bar defence was legally incorrect—amounted to a breach of the clause (the judge invited submissions on the consequential order).
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