Liability SIG Seminar
3 February 2011
Willis Auditorium, 51 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7DQ
New Year; New Delight?
The Liability SIG held it’s latest seminar at the Willis Building on Thursday 3rd February, with over 60 attendees enjoying a varied range of speakers and subjects.
After the talks Liability SIG co-sponsors 4 Pump Court and Hawkins Forensic hosted a sponsors? bar which allowed for some networking opportunities.
The first talk was entitled “The Policy Maze: Policy Liability; Review of Sugar Hut Group & Others v Great Lakes Reinsurance & Others” and was given jointly by Martyn Gabbitass, Technical Director of QuestGates and Andrew Moncreiff, a Director of Hawkins Forensic Scientists. In it they considered the implications of the recent Sugar Hut Group decision for those considering the policy position in relation to material non-disclosure and breach of warranty.
The second talk was provided by 4 Pump Court, as Aidan Christie QC and Richard Osborne took a close look at the subject of Financial Fraud, reviewing re-cent relevant cases and looking ahead to see what we might be faced with in the future.
This was followed by a talk by Sarah Reynolds, Com-plex Loss Director of QuestGates. Her talk was enti-tled “Christmas Chills and Spills”. This presentation had been due to take place shortly before Christmas but was postponed by the poor weather. Sarah had intended to warn of the perils that face those organ-ising Christmas parties. It was decided that the pres-entation remained valid only now she was looking at the liabilities that you might have incurred by invit-ing your staff to partake at the party you organised! Sarah also provided some warnings for those charged with responsibility for next years event!
Finally, Adrian Foster, Complex Loss Specialist at Cunningham Lindsey UK gave a talk entitled “Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh”, in which he reviewed the arguments for and against the use of CCFA?s in sub-rogated recoveries and considered the recent unfa-vourable (from the defendant?s perspective) decision in D Sousa v Waltham Forest London Borough Council [2010].
