About the Author | 7.6 Insuring Inherent Vice |
Foreword to the 1st Edition | 7.7 Summary |
Foreword to the 2nd Edition | 7.8 Delay |
Preface to the 2nd Edition | 7.9 Pre-MIA 1906 Cases |
Abbreviations | 7.9.1 Taylor v Dunbar (1869) |
Case Law List | 7.9.2 Pink and Others v Fleming (1890) |
1. Introduction to International Trade and Cargo Insurance | 7.10 Post-1906 Cases |
1.1 Cargo Families | 7.10.1 Becker Gray & Co v London Assurance Corporation (the ‘Kattenturm’) (1918) |
1.2 Dangerous Goods | 7.10.2 Leyland Shipping Co Ltd v Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd (1918) |
1.3 Ships and their Classification | 7.10.3 Yorkshire Dale Steamship Co Ltd v Minister of War Transport (the ‘Coxwold’) (1942) |
1.4 Flag of Convenience (FOC) | 7.11 The Delay Exclusion in ICC 1982/2009 |
1.5 Classification | 7.12 Scenarios |
1.6 Chartered Ships | 7.13 FCA Test Case |
1.7 Protection and Indemnity Clubs | 8. Insuring Terms 3 – Named Perils |
1.8 The ISM Code | 8.1 Institute Cargo Clauses (B) and (C) |
1.9 The ISPS Code | 8.2 (B) and (C) Causation Rules |
1.10 Ship Selection | 8.3 (B) and (C) Perils: Subject to Reasonably Attributable to |
1.11 The Container Revolution | 8.3.1 Fire or Explosion |
1.12 Mechanism of Containerisation | 8.3.2 Stranded, Grounded, Sunk or Capsized |
1.13 Verified Gross Mass (VGM) | 8.3.3 Overturning and Derailment of Land Conveyance |
1.14 Impact on Marine Insurance | 8.3.4 Collision or Contact |
1.15 Financing of International Trade | 8.3.5 Discharge of Cargo at a Port of Distress |
1.16 Cargo Insurance and International Trade | 8.3.6 Earthquake, Volcanic Eruption or Lightning |
1.17 Responsibility to Arrange Cargo Insurance | 8.4 (B) and (C) Perils: Subject to Caused by |
1.18 Insurance | 8.4.1 General Average Sacrifice |
1.19 Impediments to Trade | 8.4.2 Jettison or Washing Overboard |
1.20 What is Marine Cargo Insurance? | 8.4.3 Entry of Water |
1.21 Marine Cargo Insurance Contract | 8.4.4 Total Loss of Package |
1.22 The Marine Cargo Policy | 8.5 General Average |
1.23 Principles Governing Marine Cargo Insurance | 8.6 Exclusions |
1.24 Utmost Good Faith | 8.7 Institute Theft, Pilferage and/or Non-Delivery CL.272, 01.12.82 |
1.25 Duty of Disclosure, S.18 | 8.8 Theft, Pilferage and/or Non-delivery (TPND) and Piracy |
1.26 Voidable Nature of Contract, S.18(1) | 9. Insuring Terms 4 – Trade Clauses |
1.27 Pre-Contractual Duty, S.18(1) | 9.1 Institute Clauses for Bulk Oils – Part 1 |
1.28 Continuing Duty (Post Contractual) | 9.2 Perils |
1.29 Materiality and Inducement, S.18(2) | 9.3 Leakage from Connecting Pipelines |
1.30 Exceptions to the Duty of Disclosure, S.18(3) | 9.4 Underground Pipelines |
1.31 Disclosure by Agent Effecting Insurance, S.19 | 9.5 Negligence during Pumping |
1.32 Representations Pending Negotiation of Contract | 9.6 Contamination from Stress of Weather |
1.33 Criticisms of the Law of Good Faith | 9.7 Exclusions |
1.34 The Insurance Act 2015 | 9.8 Duration |
1.35 Duty of Fair Representation | 9.9 Movements by Craft and Barge Tankers |
1.36 Impact of the Insurance Act 2015 | 9.10 Delivery of Whole Consignment or Each Portion Thereof? |
1.37 Proportional Remedies | 9.11 Adjustment Clause |
1.38 Preparation Needed Under the IA 2015 Regime | 9.11.1 Explanation |
1.39 Fraud and the Duty of Good Faith | 9.12 Readjustment of Claim |
1.40 Indemnity | 9.13 Contamination Claims – Need for All Risks Cover |
1.41 Agreed Value – A Detailed Discussion | 9.14 Institute Clauses for Bulk Oils – Part 2 |
1.42 Insurable Interest | 9.15 Institute Clauses for Bulk Oils – Part 3 |
1.43 Subrogation | 9.16 Exclusions |
1.44 Contribution | 9.17 JCC Storage Extension Clauses for Bulk Oils |
1.45 Common Liability Method | 9.18 Institute Coal Clauses: Clause No 393, 01.05.16 |
1.46 Independent Liability Method | 9.19 Heating and Spontaneous Combustion |
1.47 Maximum Liability Method | 9.20 Duration |
1.48 Warranties | 9.21 Craft Risks |
1.49 Types of Warranties | 9.22 Barging Risks |
1.50 Examples of Express Warranties in Cargo Insurance | 9.23 Institute Timber Trade Clause No 405, 01.05.16 |
1.51 The Literal Performance/Strict Compliance Rule under the MIA 1906 | 9.24 Piracy |
1.52 The Position under the Insurance Act 2015 | 9.25 Exclusions |
1.53 Burden of Proof | 9.26 Duration |
1.54 Contracting Out | 10. Insuring Terms 5 – Cargoes Requiring a Controlled Environment |
2. Insurable Interest 1 | 10.1 Types of Controlled Environment |
2.1 Introduction | 10.2 Underwriting Considerations |
2.2 Insurable Interest Defined | 10.3 Slow Steaming |
2.3 Legal or Equitable Relationship | 10.4 Temperature Recording Devices |
2.4 Prejudiced by Loss … Benefit by Safety | 10.4.1 Ryan Recorder (Analogue Temperature Recorder) |
2.5 Supreme Court of Canada’s View on Macaura | 10.4.2 Data Loggers |
2.6 Supreme Court of Canada’s View on Broadgrain Commodities | 10.4.3 TempTale® (and Other Digital Temperature Recorders) |
2.7 Insurable Interests in Cargo | 10.4.4 Sensors/Probes |
2.8 International Trade under Contracts of Sale | 10.4.5 Remote Sensing Systems |
2.9 Risk v Title Dichotomy | 10.5 Institute/JCC Clauses for Frozen/Chilled Foods and Meat |
2.10 Timing of Insurable Interest | 10.6 Changes in 2017 Edition |
2.11 Lost or Not Lost | 10.7 Institute Clauses for Frozen Foods |
2.12 Assignment of Policy and Interest | 10.8 Peril Clauses |
2.13 Interplay of Various Sections of the MIA 1906 | 10.8.1 Institute Frozen/Chilled Food Clauses (C), Clause No 431 |
2.14 Insurable Interest of a Buyer | 10.8.2 Institute Frozen/Chilled Food Clauses (A), 24 Hours Breakdown, Clause No 423 |
2.15 Insurable Interest of the CIF Seller | 10.8.3 Institute Frozen/Chilled Food Clauses (A), Clause No 430 |
2.16 Concluding Remarks | 10.9 Exclusions |
3. Insurable Interest 2 – Contingency Covers | 10.9.1 Inherent Vice |
3.1 Seller’s Interest | 10.9.2 Loss of Market |
3.2 Reasons for Rejection of Documents/Goods | 10.9.3 Refrigerated, Insulated and Cooled |
3.3 Key Features of Seller’s Interest Cover | 10.9.4 Embargo, Rejection, etc |
3.4 Additional Clauses in Seller’s Interest | 10.10 Duration Clause |
3.5 Contingency Cover for CIF/CIP Seller | 10.11 Frozen Food Extension Clause, No 422 |
3.6 Buyer’s Interest | 10.12 Frozen/Chilled Meat Extension Clauses, No 429 |
3.6.1 Stage of Transit | 10.13 War and Strikes – Institute Strikes Clauses (Frozen/Chilled Food), No 424 |
3.6.2 CIF Purchases | 10.14 Frozen/Chilled Meat |
3.6.3 Tail-end Risks | 10.15 Perils |
3.6.4 Difference in Conditions (DIC)/Difference in Limits (DIL) Extensions | 10.16 Exclusions |
3.7 Achieving Seamless Covers Irrespective of Terms of Sale | 10.17 Duration |
3.8 Guarantee of Collectability | 10.18 The Adjustment Clause |
4. Marine Open Cover | 10.19 War and Strikes – Institute Strikes Clauses (Frozen/Chilled Meat), No 428 |
4.1 What is an Open Cover? | 11. Insuring Terms 6 – Non-Institute Clauses |
4.2 Advantages | 11.1 Introduction |
4.3 Assured | 11.2 Accumulation |
4.4 Period | 11.3 Airfreight Replacement (Expediting Expenses) |
4.5 Cancellation Clause | 11.4 Apportionment of Recoveries |
4.6 Interest Insured | 11.5 Arrest |
4.7 Treatment of Packing Materials | 11.6 Art and Antiques (Depreciation) |
4.8 Conveyances | 11.7 Assured |
4.9 Use of Own Vehicles | 11.8 Bagged Cargo Clause |
4.10 Voyage/Geographical Limits | 11.9 Brand, Label and Trademark Protection |
4.11 Basis of Valuation | 11.9.1 Labels Clause |
4.12 Limits of Liability | 11.9.2 Brands and Trademark Clause |
4.13 Per Bottom Limit | 11.10 Control of Damaged Goods |
4.14 Location Limit | 11.11 Claused Bill of Lading |
4.15 Meaning of Location | 11.12 Commingling |
4.16 Accumulation at Ports of Loading and Discharge | 11.13 Concealed Damage (Delayed Discovery of Loss) |
4.17 Location Limit and Overseas Buyers | 11.14 Containers |
4.18 Limits and Co-Assureds | 11.14.1 Container Fitness |
4.19 Limits of Liability and Condition of Average | 11.14.2 Container Demurrage |
4.20 Limit Per Location and Freight Forwarders | 11.14.3 Container Handover |
4.21 Accumulation Clause | 11.14.4 Container Seals |
4.22 Terms of Cover | 11.15 Contingency |
4.23 Declaration (Bordereau) | 11.15.1 Incoterms® Rules Override Clause |
4.24 Late Declaration or Omission to Declare | 11.15.2 Cover for Fob (or Similar Purchases) |
4.25 Certificate of Insurance | 11.15.3 Seller’s Interest Cover |
4.26 Hold Harmless Clause | 11.15.4 Buyer’s Interest Cover |
4.27 Web-based Certificate Generation (E-Marine) | 11.16 Continuation Clause |
4.28 Certificate Versus Open Cover Terms | 11.17 Country Damage |
4.29 Nature of Open Cover Contract ‘for’ or Contract ‘of ’ Insurance | 11.18 Cutting Clause |
4.30 Certificate Issued for Individual Export Voyage | 11.19 Debris Removal |
4.31 Words of Incorporation in the Certificate | 11.20 Deck Cargo |
4.32 Certificate Mentioning the Open Cover Number | 11.21 Deductible Clause |
4.33 Certificate Mentioning ‘All Other Terms as Per Open Cover’ | 11.22 Duty/Customs Duty and Taxes |
4.34 Certificate Mentioning Entities ‘for Whom the Assured has Instruction to Insure’ | 11.23 Exchange Rate (Currency Conversion) |
4.35 Rights of an Unpaid Seller | 11.24 Export Subsidies and Similar |
4.36 Conclusion | 11.25 Fraudulent Bill of Lading |
4.37 Annual Sales Turnover Policies | 11.26 Full General Average |
4.38 Annual Sales Turnover Policies – A Critique | 11.27 Fumigation |
4.39 Cargo (Stock) Throughput Policies | 11.28 Governmental Damage |
4.40 Advantages of Stock Throughput Policies | 11.28.1 Customs Clause |
4.41 Illustrations of a Stock Throughput Policy | 11.28.2 Deliberate Damage – Pollution Hazard |
4.42 Challenges in Administering Stock Throughput Covers | 11.29 Jurisdiction |
4.43 Process Clause in Stock Throughput Covers | 11.30 Letter of Credit |
4.44 Standard Exclusions in a Stock Throughput Policy | 11.31 Loading and Unloading |
5. Insuring Terms 1 – Institute Classification Clause | 11.32 Location |
5.1 Main Provisions | 11.33 Mechanical and Electrical Derangement (MEED) |
5.2 Age Limitation | 11.33.1 Usage |
5.3 Non-qualifying Vessels | 11.33.2 Meaning |
5.4 Summary | 11.33.3 Damage Detection Devices – Shock and Tilt Monitors |
5.5 Transhipping Vessels | 11.34 Packing |
5.6 Craft | 11.35 Pair and Set |
5.7 Classification Clause | 11.36 Pipeline Clause |
5.8 SOLAS 1974 | 11.37 Peak Value/Automatic Increased Value |
5.9 The International Safety Management (ISM) Code | 11.38 Process |
5.9.1 ISM Code and Marine Insurance | 11.39 Reissue |
5.10 ISM Forwarding Charges | 11.40 Returned Goods |
5.10.1 Compliance with the ISM Code | 11.41 Salvage Loss |
5.11 Summary and Concluding Remarks | 11.42 Shut-out Shipment |
5.12 ISM and Classification | 11.43 Sight Draft Extension |
5.13 The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code | 11.44 Sorting/Segregation |
5.13.1 ISPS Endorsements | 11.45 Trade Loss |
5.13.2 ISPS – Implications for Cargo Assureds | 11.46 Travel and Accommodation |
6. Insuring Terms 2 – Institute Cargo Clauses (A), CL.382, 01.01.09 | 11.47 Waiver of Subrogation |
6.1 Background to Changes | 12. Insuring Terms 7 – War and Related Perils |
6.2 General Changes | 12.1 Institute War Clauses (Cargo) CL.385, 01.01.09 |
6.3 Major Changes | 12.2 Perils |
6.4 Perils Clause | 12.2.1 War |
6.4.1 All Risks | 12.2.2 Civil War |
6.4.2 General Average | 12.2.3 Revolution, Rebellion and Insurrection |
6.4.3 Both to Blame Collision Claus | 12.2.4 Civil Strife |
6.5 Exclusions | 12.2.5 Hostile Act by or against a Belligerent Power |
6.5.1 Wilful Misconduct | 12.2.6 Capture |
6.5.2 Ordinary Losses | 12.2.7 Seizure |
6.5.3 Poor Packaging | 12.2.8 Arrest |
6.5.4 Inherent Vice | 12.2.9 Restraint |
6.5.5 Delay | 12.2.10 Detainment |
6.5.6 Insolvency | 12.2.11 “… and the consequences thereof or any attempt thereat” |
6.5.7 Nuclear or Radioactive Devices | 12.2.12 Derelict Mines etc |
6.5.8 Unseaworthiness | 12.3 Exclusions |
6.5.9 Hostile Acts | 12.3.1 The Frustration Clause |
6.5.10 Strikes | 12.3.2 Hostile Use of Weapons or Devices |
6.6 Duration of Cover – 1 | 12.4 Waterborne Agreement |
6.6.1 Background to Duration Clause, 2009 Edition | 12.4.1 Duration |
6.7 The Duration Clause in ICC 2009 | 12.4.2 Reattachment Provision (‘Held Covered’) |
6.7.1 Attachment | 12.4.3 Craft |
6.7.2 Ordinary Course of Transit | 12.5 Institute Strike, Riot, Civil Commotion (SRCC) CL 386, 01.01.09 |
6.7.3 Termination | 12.5.1 Strike |
6.8 Duration Clause Scenarios | 12.5.2 Locked-out Workmen |
6.8.1 Attachment of Cover Scenarios | 12.5.3 Labour Disturbances |
6.8.2 Continuation Scenario | 12.5.4 Riot |
6.8.3 Termination Scenarios | 12.5.5 Civil Commotion |
6.9 Other Markets | 12.6 Terrorism |
6.10 Duration of Cover – 2 | 12.7 General Average (GA) |
6.10.1 Additional Premium under Clause 9 | 12.8 Exclusions |
6.10.2 Can the Insurer Deny Extension of Cover Upon Receiving Notice under Clause 9? | 12.8.1 Exclusion 3.7 |
6.11 Change of Voyage | 12.8.2 Exclusion 3.8 |
6.11.1 Clause 10.2 – the Phantom Ship | 12.8.3 Exclusion 3.10 |
6.12 Claims | 12.9 Cancellation Clause in Open Covers |
6.13 Forwarding Charges | 12.10 Institute Malicious Damage Clause, CL.266, 01.08.82 |
6.13.1 Clause 12 – a ‘Supplementary Contract’? | 12.11 Institute Radioactive Contamination (RACE) Clause |
6.14 Constructive Total Loss | 12.11.1 Extended Race Clause, No 356A/01.11.02 |
6.15 Increased Value | 12.11.2 Dirty Bombs |
6.16 Benefit of Insurance | 12.11.3 Further Amendment Clause, No 370/10.11.03 |
6.17 Minimising Losses | 12.11.4 Termination of Transit Clause (Terrorism) 2009, JC2009/056, 01.01.09 |
6.18 Waiver | 12.12 Cyber Attack |
6.19 Avoidance of Delay | 13. Rejection Risks |
6.20 Law and Practice | 13.1 Origin of Rejection Risks Covers |
6.21 Note | 13.2 Concurrent Causation – Applicability to Exclusion 6.2/6.4 |
6.22 Premium to be Arranged – is there an Upper Limit? | 13.3 Need for Rejection Risks |
7. Inherent Vice and Delay Exclusions | 13.4 Rejection Risks Insurance |
7.1 Inherent Vice | 13.5 Analysis of London May 1975 Rejection Clause |
7.2 Meaning of Inherent Vice | 13.6 Duration |
7.3 Examples of Inherent Vice | 13.6.1 Attachment |
7.4 Mechanism of Condensation | 13.6.2 Termination |
7.5 Leading Case Law on Inherent Vice | 13.7 Rejection Covers in other Major Markets |
7.5.1 E D Sassoon & Co Ltd v Yorkshire Insurance Co (1923) | 13.8 Underwriting Factors |
7.5.2 C T Bowring & Co Ltd v Amsterdam London Insurance Co Ltd (1930) | 13.9 Warranties |
7.5.3 Soya GmbH Mainz Kommanditgesellschaft v White (1983) | 14. Contract Certainty in Policies |
7.5.4 Noten BV v Harding (1990) | 14.1 Introduction |
7.5.5 Mayban General Insurance BHD v Alstom Power Plants Ltd (2004) | 14.2 Ambiguities |
7.5.6 Nelson Marketing International Inc v Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Co of | 14.3 Contra Proferentem Rule |
Canada (2005) | 14.4 Ambiguities and Gaps in Coverage – Why they Arise |
7.5.7 Feuiltault Solution Systems Inc v Zurich Canada (2021) | 14.4.1 The Mining Industry |
7.5.8 Global PROCESS Systems Inc and Another v Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad | 14.4.2 The Pharmaceutical Industry |
(the ‘Cendor MOPU’) (2011) | 14.5 Limitation to Contra Rule |
7.5.9 ACE European Group Ltd and Others v Chartis Insurance UK Ltd (2012) | 14.6 Interpreting Policy Terms – The Rise of Factual Matrix/Commercial Common Sense |