Garnat Trading & Shipping (Singapore) Pte Ltd and Anr v Baominh Insurance Corporation - Court of Appeal (Mummery, Longmore and Aikens LJJ) - 6 July 2011

(2011) 830 LMLN 2
Marine insurance - Voyage policy on floating dock - Damage suffered in tropical storm - Whether assured failed to disclose material facts - Whether dock unseaworthy

Good Faith

SW Traders LLC v United Specialty Insurance and Anr (The "Pacific Dawn") - US Court of Appeals (9th Circuit)(Fletcher, Fernandez and Bybee Ct JJ) - 18 November 2010

Marine insurance - Uberrimae fidei - Failure to disclose true owner of vessel - Whether policy void at inception for non-disclosure

(2011) 817 LMLN 4(2)

Good Faith

Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) Plc v Durham Auctions Inc (The “Time Out”) – US Court of Appeals (5th Circuit)(King, Garwood and Davis Ct JJ) – 9 October 2009

Marine insurance – Choice of law – Hull policy containing choice of law provision providing for alternative applicable law – Whether insurer entitled to rely on principle of uberrimae fidei – Whether New York law or Mississippi law applied

(2009) 782 LMLN 3

Choice of Law, Good Faith

Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London v Inlet Fisheries Inc and Ors – US Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (M Margaret McKeown and Richard R Clifton Ct JJ and William W Schwarzer DJ) – 11 February 2008

Marine insurance – Vessel pollution insurance – Uberrimae fidei – Whether insurers entitled to avoid policy on ground of non-disclosure

(2008) 740 LMLN 4

Good Faith

AGF MAT v Ocean Masters Inc (The “Northern Challenge II”) – Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal (Wells CJNL, Roberts and Welsh JJA) – 16 May 2007

On 2 August 2001 the fishing vessel Northern Challenge II caught fire and sank about 40 nautical miles from St John’s, Canada.

North Star Shipping Ltd and Ors v Sphere Drake Insurance plc and Ors (The “North Star”) - Court of Appeal (Waller, Longmore and Lloyd LJJ) - 7 April 2006

The assured, a one-ship company, was beneficially owned by brothers HP and MP. The North Star had been purchased in September 1989 when she was 17 years old.

Sphere Drake Insurance Plc v J. Shree Corporation - US District Court (SDNY)(Pitman MJ) - 28 March 2002

The defendant, a New York diamond merchant, claimed to be the bailee of $5 million worth of rough gemstones which were lost in 1996 while the stones were being shipped from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to be cut and polished.

K/S Merc-Scandia XXXXII v Lloyd’s Underwriters (The "Mercandian Continent") - Court of Appeal (Robert Walker and Longmore LJJ and Carnwath J) - 31 July 2001

The claimant shipowners brought proceedings against shiprepairers arising out of damage to the claimants’ engine.

Fraser Shipping Ltd v Colton and Ors (The “Shakir III”) - QBD (Com Ct)(Potter LJ) - 11 October 1996

The plaintiffs bought the semi-submersible lift vessel Shakir III on 4 May 1993, at which time the vessel was at Jebil Ali.