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By Andrew Horne - partner, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua is seeking views on its proposed enforcement principles and criteria. The proposed enforcement principles will guide the activities of the Reserve Bank’s new Enforc...Ask an Expert
QUESTION: Our client had taken out PMV policy and it was named driver only comprehensive policy. Named driver is under 25. Driver's uncle was driving the car who caused the accident. He is over 25 and has no previous cla...
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QUESTION: A client had a bird nest under some roof tiles which caused water to get into a lounge ceiling. The property is the insured's weekend home and the water damage to the ceiling was not found until the following weeken...
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QUESTION: We have a client who rented a home for a commercial shoot. The shoot was over two days, after the shoot the owner noticed several areas of damage after the shoot. The Insurer wants to apply a separate excess to...
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QUESTION: We have a client who was engaged to renovate a home. This involved replacing some flooring with secondhand tawa flooring to match existing. The flooring was purchased from a dealer but once laid and sanded back was...
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QUESTION: A tree in a car park owned by a commercial landlord breaks in a weather event and damages a trailer parked in the car park and owned by the tenant to the building. The landlord wishes to make a claim for the...
FSCL Case Study
Person B was an overseas student studying in New Zealand. She arranged travel insurance to cover her medical costs while in NZ. When she became pregnant, while in New Zealand, her medical expenses were covered by government...
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As a single mother, Person A decided she needed to get income protection insurance in case she had an incident leaving her unable to work and pay her expenses. She went to an adviser who recommended she also get mortgage repayment,...
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It is fundamental to all insurance that it only covers a fortuity – that is, a loss that is accidental from the insured’s point of view. So, how are the courts to interpret a liability policy that excludes:...
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For those of you yet to commence your qualifications under the new FSLAA regulations, the clock is now truly ticking. The alarm goes off on the 15th March 2023, and if you haven’t got your qualification by then you cannot give...
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QUESTION: A client lives in an upmarket suburb and their house is up a long driveway some 80m+ long and not visible from the street front. Our client was having a number of guests around and as a result left his keys in his...
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QUESTION: We have a client who has had two areas of netting damaged, one area slashed and cut, and another just further along has had a section slashed and cut out and the netting taken. The netting is designed to stop...
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QUESTION: A local cricket club was playing a game of cricket. A player during the game hit a ball, it cleared the boundary and hit a neighbouring property, causing damage. Under the Public Liability policy in place for the...
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QUESTION: A commercial client of mine has a Vehicle Fleet with approx 20 vehicles insured. In December 2020, one of their staff was driving home on a Friday evening, having stopped at a friends house for dinner and a few...
FSCL Case Study
In 2020, two small business owners began to suspect that their former insurance broker had charged them fees without telling them. When they first placed their insurances through the broker in 2016, the broker sent them a bundle of...
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