British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company Ltd v Gaunt
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 18 April 1921 |
| Date | 18 April 1921 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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Netherlands (State of The) (represented by the Minister of Defence) v Youell
...is to impose a duty to sue and labour — a very restricted duty compared with the general obligations contended for.” On appeal, [1921] 2 AC 41 at p. 65, Lord Sumner said: “The section obviously refers to suing and labouring. It cannot possibly be read as meaning that if the agents of the as......
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Mayban General Assurance Bhd v Alstom Power Plants Ltd [QBD (Comm)]
...to be exposed in the course of the voyage. These principles emerge clearly from the decision of the House of Lords in British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co. Ltd v Gaunt [1921] 2 A.C. 41. The case concerned bales of wool insured against all risks in transit from sheep's back in Patagonia t......
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7 firm's commentaries
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (August 30 ' September 3, 2021)
...National Railway Co. v. Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Co. of Canada, 2008 SCC 66, British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co. v. Gaunt, [1921] 2 A.C. 41 (H.L.), Jessy's Pizza (Bedford) v. Economical Mutual Insurance Company, 2008 NSSM 38, MRI Healthcare Center of Glendale, Inc. v. State Far......
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Court Of Appeal Summaries (August 30 ' September 3, 2021)
...National Railway Co. v. Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Co. of Canada, 2008 SCC 66, British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co. v. Gaunt, [1921] 2 A.C. 41 (H.L.), Jessy's Pizza (Bedford) v. Economical Mutual Insurance Company, 2008 NSSM 38, MRI Healthcare Center of Glendale, Inc. v. State Far......
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All Perils Policies: Is COVID-19 An Insured Peril?
...virus can be considered physical damage within the meaning of the policy. Footnotes 1. British & Foreign Marine Insurance Co. v. Gaunt, [1921] 2 A.C. 41. 2. Fandasia Restaurant Ltd. v. Strathcona General Insurance Co., 1984 CarswellBC 796. 3. United Technologies Corp. v. American Home Assur......
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The Interpretation Of Standard Form Insurance Policies: $56 Million Award Overturned
...only fortuitous or unanticipated losses. The Court further referred to the case of British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co. v. Gaunt, [1921] 2 A.C. 41 (H.L.), which found that the words "all-risk" cannot be held to cover all damage. The Court in Gaunt stated that "Damage, in other words, if......
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CHAPTER 7
...excluded. It has long been recognized, however, that “all-risk” does not mean all-loss. British & Foreign Marine Ins. Co. v. Gaunt, [1921] 2 A.C. 41, 57 (Eng.); Mellon v. Fed. Ins. Co., 14 F.2d 997, 1002-03 (S.D.N.Y. 1926) (A. Hand, J.). A loss that is inevitable is not a risk. This concept......
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Insurance
...[2013] FCA 1420 at [65]–[72], per Kenny J (appeal dismissed: [2016] FCAFC 17). 198 British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co Ltd v Gaunt [1921] 2 AC 41 at 47, per Lord Birkenhead LC; Suncorp Metway Insurance Ltd v Owners Corporation SP 64487 [2009] NSWCA 223 at [52], per Sackville AJA. INSURA......
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Table of cases
...Co, [1992] 3 SCR 87, [1992] ILR 2051, [1992] SCJ No 86 ......... 283, 284, 287, 340 British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co v Gaunt, [1921] 2 AC 41 (HL) ............................................................................... 28, 294 British Columbia v Zastowny, 2008 SCC 4 ................
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...(wife who killed husband by her careless driving allowed to enforce his life insurance in her favour). 288 British Marine v Gaunt [1921] 2 AC 41 at 52, 57. 289 Upjohn v Hitchens [1918] 2 KB 48 at 58; City Tailors v Evans(1921) 38 TLR 230 at 233—34. 290 Samuel v Dumas [1924] AC 431; see also......
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