Brit UW Ltd v F & B Trenchless Solutions Ltd
Decision date: 31 July 2015
Neutral citation: [2015] EWHC 2237 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
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This case concerns an insurance insurer's attempt to avoid a contractors' combined liability policy on the grounds that the insured failed to disclose significant earth settlement and a void at a tunnelling site and made a misrepresentation about carrying out work under active railway lines. The court found that Brit validly avoided the Policy in January 2014 for material non-disclosure and misrepresentation, and dismissed FBTS's counterclaim. It also found Brit had not affirmed the Policy.
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