Insurance Focus - July 2008

Insurance Focus is our regular bulletin covering legal developments in insurance and reinsurance in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

In this issue:

• Climate Change: Part 1 - Litigation.
• Keeping control of your experts.
• Passing school buses - risky business.
• Where there is smoke … A fire damage claim helps clarify the terms 'arising out of', 'use' and 'in connection with'.
• Duty of care for economic loss.
• Exclusion clauses for consequential loss.
• Lawyers' negligence - recent decisions.
• The dangers of covering unidentified third parties.
• Prudential regulation of insurers in NZ.
• Over-relying on the broker.
• Limiting policy coverage.
• At the Courthouse.
• At a glimpse: professional indemnity issues in an economic downturn.
• Industry news - some recent reports and news from the insurance industry.

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