International insurers need to get to grips with the specifics of insurance law in Latin American if they are to avoid falling foul of local practice

Holman Fenwick Willan recently hosted a seminar in the UK on the controversial proposals for reform of s53 of the Marine Insurance Act (1906), which makes the broker liable for a marine insurance premium to the exclusion of the policyholder.

THE problem of piracy has recently hit new heights in Somalia with the hijacking of Faina and Sirius Star, pictured.