Recent Cases

Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd v Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London Subscribing to Policy Number B105809GCOM0430 [2019] NSWCA 271 (07 November 2019) (Bathurst CJ at [1]; Macfarlan JA at [14]; Meagher JA at [54])


Catchwords:


INSURANCE – double insurance – contribution between insurers – “other insurance” clauses – one policy contained an “excess” clause and the other an “escape” clause – whether there was double insurance on proper construction of policies – whether rule in Weddell v Road Transport and General Insurance [1932] 2 KB 563 applied