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Fraud: Bad pennies
Alison Padfield considers the recovery of the costs of investigating insurance fraud: current routes and proposed reform The only remedy for breach of the duty of good faith is avoidance of the policy, not damages, so the costs of investigating a claim cannot be recovered by that route. According to the United Kingdom’s Insurance Fraud …
Cases Referenced
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- Agapitos & anor v Agnew & ors [2002] EWCA Civ 247
- Banque Financière de la Cité SA v Westgate Insurance Co Ltd [1991] 2 AC 249
- Derry v Peek [1889] UKHL 1
- Insurance Corporation of the Channel Islands Ltd v McHugh [1997] LRLR 94
- London Assurance v Clare (1937) 57 Ll L R 254
- Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v Uni-Polaris Insurance Co Ltd [2001] UKHL 1
- Shah v Ul-Haq [2009] EWCA Civ 542