AIG Europe Ltd v OC320301 LLP & Ors
Decision date: 14 August 2015
Neutral citation: [2015] EWHC 2398 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: high
Short overview
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AIG Europe sought a declaration that numerous investor claims against a firm of solicitors should be aggregated as a single claim under the solicitors' insurance policy; the court had to construe the policy's aggregation clause and apply it to allegations arising from the failed Midas developments. The underlying investor claims (assumed true for these proceedings) concerned release of escrowed monies and defective security for Peninsula Village and Al Johara/Marrakech projects. The court refused AIG the declaration it sought.
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