Month in Review 03/2022

COVID-19 update: State of litigation and coverage issues in the UK and Australia

Our head of the German insurance practice, Henning Schaloske, and Neil Beresford, head of the firm's global product liability and recall practice, will discuss the following trends:

• the latest developments in the UK, including an important new decision against AXA concerning denial of access clauses
• an update on three major aggregation cases which are due to come to trial in July and which will consider the question of how many occurrences the pandemic comprises
• an update on the second Australian test case, which made evenly-balanced findings as between policyholders and insurers