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Insurers must prepare for UK’s Crime and Policing Act 2026

Companies that move quickly to strengthen governance, monitoring and accountability frameworks will be better placed to reduce their exposure to criminal liability

Legal focus Regulation

AI washing represents a new frontier for D&O risk

Securities class actions, flowing from allegations of AI washing, are expensive to defend, and the costs can mount long before the merits are tested

North America International

Covid‑19 exclusions in claims‑made policies

High Court in South Africa clarifies the operation of claims-made policies and underscores the critical importance of timeous notification

Legal focus Casualty

Fuel leaks and strict liability

Privy Council decision highlights the potential for increased exposure for businesses and their liability insurers in claims involving dangerous substance escapes

Legal focus United Kingdom

PRA takes action on funded reinsurance

Regulators are taking a growing interest in the relationship between private credit and funded reinsurance

United Kingdom Legal focus

What rebuilding nuclear power means for UK insurers

While the next generation of nuclear power offers significant growth opportunities, it also introduces a new generation of risks that require careful calibration of policy wordings, aggregation management and capital deployment

Specialty Casualty

Offshore wind, insurance and the cost of failure

Although there is clear appetite within the insurance market, capacity remains limited and constraints on insurability are inevitable for complex and rapidly developing technologies

International Specialty

Insurance implications of infectious disease outbreaks at sea

Infectious disease outbreaks at sea are multi-dimensional risk events requiring coordinated legal, regulatory and insurance responses

Legal focus International

Litigation funding is a useful tool for insureds that insurers must remain alive to

The distinction between litigation assignment and traditional funding is essential for effective management of commercial disputes and litigation risk

International Legal focus

High Court clarifies aggregation of Covid-19 losses at reinsurance level

English courts are favouring reinsureds by taking wide construction approach to the aggregation of Covid-19 losses

Legal focus Reinsurance

Law Commission review signals possible expansion of the opt-out class action regime

Introduction of a new consumer class action regime in England and Wales could increase litigation risk significantly for businesses and their insurers

Legal focus Claims Management

Construction guarantees are subject to the South African Insurance Act

South African court ruling settles long-contested question about whether construction guarantees constitute non-life insurance policies

Legal focus Property
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