Kuwait Airways Corporation and Anor v Kuwait Insurance Company S A K and Ors (No 1): ComC 21 Dec 1995

ComC Construction of Insurance policies. Whether the Claimant could recover from their insurers for 15 aircraft taken by Iraqi forces in the invasion of Kuwait. Claim was made in respect of spare aircraft parts and for sue and labour expenses. Held that the ground limit did apply to spares, the ground limit was qualified by the words ‘any one occurrence, any one location’ but that stores being looted were not events occurring in war and therefore the claim failed. Sue and Labour cost could not be recovered

Judges:

Rix J

Citations:

[1996] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 664

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

Appeal from (Affirmed)Kuwait Airways Corporation and Another v Kuwait Insurance Company Sak CA 21-May-1997
. .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Insurance

Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.185999