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P&I / InsuranceThe Loadstar·5 days ago

Marine Insurance – can new conflicts be covered by old clauses?

The Loadstar

A few weeks ago, I was reviewing a client’s open cover policy, a fairly standard exercise, when I found myself rereading the Institute War Clauses Cargo from 2009, cross-referencing Hull clauses from 1983, and reaching further back to the Marine Insurance Act 1906. At one point I stopped and thought: these are t