Kuwait Airways Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Company S.A.K.

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1996
Neutral Citation[2000] EWHC 191 (Comm)
Date1996
Year1996
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
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  • Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Company Ltd (Formerly Chiyoda Fire and Marine Insurance Company Ltd) v Heraldglen Ltd [QBD (Comm)]
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 8 February 2013
    ...award in the Dawson's Field Arbitration and applied and developed by Rix J in Kuwait Airways Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Co SAK [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 664. 4 In paragraph 83 of the Award the Tribunal concluded that the losses arising on the 10 inward reinsurances were caused by two separat......
  • Mann and Another v Lexington Insurance Company
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 October 2000
    ...or reinsurance policy regard could be had to the terms of the underlying insurance. 15 Rix J, as he then was, in Kuwait Airways Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Co [1996] 1 Lloyds Rep 664 analysed the authorities which considered the meaning of occurrence in the insurance context. I make no ......
  • Ace European Group and Others v Standard Life Assurance Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 December 2012
    ...35 Within three days of delivering his monumental judgment in Royal Boskalis Rix J also delivered a long judgment in Kuwait Airways Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Company [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 664. That was a case of aviation insurance, not marine insurance. KAC's aircraft were insured up t......
  • Piraeus Bank A.E. v Antares Underwriting Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 17 May 2022
    ...922, 936–937. 53 See Polurrian v Young (1913) 19 Com Cas 143; Marstrand Fishing Co Ltd v Beer (1936) 56 Lloyd's Rep 163; Kuwait Airways Corp v Kuwait Insurance Co SAK [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 54 Day 2/57/2–10. See also Day 2/58/4–10. 55 Day 2/58/11–24. 56 The Bank made a declaration in respect......
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13 firm's commentaries
  • Aggregation Of Losses Under English, Cayman Islands, And Bermuda Law: A COVID-19 Reminder For Insurers And Reinsurers
    • Cayman Islands
    • Mondaq Cayman Islands
    • 14 January 2021
    ...and to the estates of those who had died from the illness. Footnotes 1 See cases as Caudle v Sharp [1995] LRLR 433, KAC v KIC [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 664, Axa v Field [1996] 1 WLR 1027, Scott v Copenhagen Reinsurance Co UK Ltd [2003] Lloyd's Rep 696, IF P&C Insurance v Silversea Cruises [2003]......
  • The 'Double-Proviso' follow settlements clause
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 19 May 2010
    ...Company of Africa v. SCOR [1985] 1Lloyd's Rep 312 CA [1996] 3 All ER 865 [1991] 1 Lloyd's Rep 524 [2009] EWHC 2787 [1996] 1 WLR 1026 [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 664 Mr Anthony Menzies Taylor Wessing 5 New Street Square London EC4A 3TW UNITED KINGDOM E-mail: A.Menzies@taylorwessing.com
  • Aggregation clauses in insurance policies
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 4 November 2015
    ...the point of view of an informed observer placed in the position of the insured": Kuwait Airways Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Co [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 664. There were three mechanical breakdowns in a ship. Each breakdown led to another, sparking a chain of events that could not be segrega......
  • 'Brillante Virtuoso' Held To Have Been A Constructive Total Loss
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 22 January 2015
    ...(Comm) the "Brillante Virtuoso". 2 Angel v Merchants Marine Insurance Co [1903] 1 KB 811 at 816 3 Kuwait Airways v Kuwait Insurance [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 664 at 696-7 4 The Star Sea [2001] UKHL 1; [2003] 1 AC 469 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subje......
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2 books & journal articles
  • THE CESSATION OF SUE AND LABOUR
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...& Co[1916] 1 AC 650. 10 One instance of this was in the aviation policy in Kuwait Airways Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Co SAK[1996] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 664 (Rix J), [1997] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 687 (CA), [1999] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 803 (HL) (“the Kuwait Airways case”). The sue and labour clause is also someti......
  • Masefield AG v. Amlin Corporate Member Ltd.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 35 No. 2, August 2011
    • 1 August 2011
    ...158; Dawson's Field (Unreported, Arbitration, Michael Kerr QC, 29 March 1972); Kuwait Airways Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Co SAK [1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep 664; Scott v Copenhagen Reinsurance Co (UK) Ltd [2003] 2 All ER (Comm) (64) Which included having to correct a statement made in one of hi......

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