4 Pump Court features in The Lawyer Top 10 Appeals 2024

The Lawyer‘s Top 10 Appeals of 2024 has been released reflecting some of the key issues facing the legal industry and the world today. Featured in the list of cases is ‘London International Exhibition Centre v Allianz and others’. The case, which was one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2023, will be heard […]

5th February 2024

A significant development in Covid-19 BI insurance litigation – concurrent causation applies to “at the premises”...

On 16 June 2023, the High Court handed down judgment in the above matter ([2023] EWHC 1481 (Comm)), which involved members of chambers, Aidan Christie KC, Michael Davie KC, Martyn Naylor and Anna Hoffmann. The judgment considered the application of the analysis by the Supreme Court in the seminal case The FCA v Arch & […]

21st June 2023

COVID-19 and business interruption insurance—cover for ‘Plague’ (Rockliffe Hall v Travelers Insurance)

In a recent article written for LexisNexis UK PSL Insurance & Reinsurance, Martyn Naylor looks at the recent High Court decision in Rockliffe Hall v Travelers Insurance. One of the many topical insurance issues left unresolved by the recent Supreme Court ‘test case’ on business interruption insurance is whether there was cover for losses arising from […]

17th March 2021

Supreme Court decision in FCA business interruption insurance test case

The Supreme Court has handed down the final judgment in the case of The Financial Conduct Authority v. Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and Others. The Business interruption insurance test case determines whether existing business interruption insurance policies will cover policy holders for business lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rachel Ansell KC and Martyn Naylor […]

15th January 2021

FCA Business Interruption insurance test case

The Commercial Court has handed down judgment in the COVID-19 Business Interruption insurance test case of The Financial Conduct Authority v. Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and Others [2020] EWHC 2448 (Comm). These expedited proceedings concerned numerous sample wordings of business interruption policies from eight leading insurers and were commenced in June 2020, leading to an urgent two week […]

17th September 2020

Alexander Hickey KC and Martyn Naylor Successful in Appeal Hearing Regarding the Consumer Rights Act 2015

On 4 May 2018, Alexander Hickey KC and Martyn Naylor were successful in an appeal hearing which will be of interest to all contractors who carry out domestic construction projects. The case itself concerned two contracts for the installation of a fitted kitchen and other bespoke installation works between a consumer, Mr Kharlamov, and a […]

29th May 2018

IRLA YPG Seminar – 22nd September 2016

Martyn Naylor will be speaking at the IRLA YPG Link & Learn All Change seminar on 22nd September. He will discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Versloot Dredging (which was handed down 20 July 2016) and its impact on fraudulent insurance claims. The seminar will be held at Sidley Austin LLP, Woolgate Exchange, 25 Basinghall […]

UK Reforms Raise Questions for Bermuda

4 Pump Court’s Martyn Naylor looks at the changes that are affecting the UK’s professional services market focusing on the challenges Insurance and Finance are now facing out of the public eye. The UK’s financial sector is often in the media nowadays, and rarely for the right reasons. There sometimes seems to be a rule […]

21st August 2015

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