Equitas Ltd & Anor v Walsham Brothers & Company Ltd
Decision date: 28 October 2013
Neutral citation: [2013] EWHC 3264 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
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This commercial dispute concerns whether Lloyd's broker Walsham failed to remit to Lloyd's syndicates (and their successor Equitas) funds received from reinsurers and retrocessionaires, and whether Equitas can recover principal and lost investment income (total claimed about £14.9m). The court determined issues of principle at trial and (on the material supplied) established broadly the methodology for assessing Equitas's damages and found that Equitas had succeeded in defeating Walsham’s set‑off defence and its claim to deduct reinstatement brokerage. The judgment text available is incomplete and does not record all detailed rulings or remedies.
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