Frasca-Judd v Golovina
Decision date: 5 February 2016
Neutral citation: [2016] EWHC 497 (QB)
Court: High Court (King's Bench Division)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
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This is a landlord/insurer subrogated claim against a tenant for flood damage caused by frozen pipes, based on an express tenancy clause requiring precautions against frost and alternatively negligence. The judge found the claimant's evidence weak and, on the balance of probabilities, accepted the tenant's evidence that she left the heating on when vacating, so the possibility of subsequent heating failure could not be excluded. For those reasons the claim was dismissed.
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