{"id":1434,"date":"2024-10-28T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fenchurchlaw.com\/en-uk\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2024-10-28T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:05:58","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-room-and-its-not-the-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fenchurchlaw.com\/en-uk\/the-elephant-in-the-room-and-its-not-the-secretary-of-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The elephant in the room: and it\u2019s not the Secretary of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this, the latest in a series of recent Covid-19 BI appeals, the Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in <em>International Entertainment Holdings Limited &amp; Ors v Allianz Insurance Plc <\/em>[2024] EWCA Civ 1281<em>. <\/em>A copy of the judgment can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2024\/1281.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The central issue here turned on whether the restrictions brought in by the government, preventing or hindering access to the claimants\u2019 theatres around the country, were those of a \u201c\u2018policing authority\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In concluding that they were not, the Court of Appeal held that, \u201c<em>It is sufficient to say that the term does not extend to the Secretary of State. To adapt Lord Justice Scrutton\u2019s famous remark about the elephant (Merchants Marine Insurance Co Ltd v North of England Protection &amp; Indemnity Association (1926) 26 Ll LR 201, 203), the reasonable policyholder might not be able to define a \u201cpolicing authority\u201d, but he would know that the Secretary of State was not one<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That finding notwithstanding, the judgment brings some welcome news for the wider policyholder market with the finding that Covid-19 can be an \u201cincident\u201d and that, in the absence of clear wording to the contrary, cover can be available on a \u201cper premises\u201d basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Underlying Proceedings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The issues on appeal in this matter were first heard by Mr Justice Jacobs as part of a group of cases (see <em>Gatwick Investment Ltd v Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE<\/em> [2024] EWHC 124 (Comm)).<\/p>\n<p>The claim concerned the interpretation of a non-damage denial of access (\u201c<strong>NDDA<\/strong>\u201d) clause for losses arising out of the closure of venues, following the 21 March Regulations made by the Secretary for Health and Social Care.<\/p>\n<p>The relevant wording read as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Denial of Access Endanger Life or Property <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Any claim resulting from interruption of or interference with the Business as a direct result of an incident likely to endanger human life or property within 1 mile radius of the premises in consequence of which access to or use of the premises is prevented or hindered by any policing authority, but excluding any occurrence where the duration of such prevention or hindrance of us [sic.] is less than 4 hours, shall be understood to be loss resulting from damage to property used by the Insured at the premises provided that <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i) The Maximum Indemnity Period is limited to 3 months, and <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>ii) The liability of the Insurer for any one claim in the aggregate during any one Period of Insurance shall not exceed \u00a3500,000<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At first instance, the Judge concluded that the Secretary of State was not a \u201cpolicing authority\u201d, which was sufficient for the policyholders\u2019 claims to be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Appeal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While accepting that the term \u201cpolicing authority\u201d was not limited to the police, and that it could encompass restrictions imposed by a similar body performing policing functions in circumstances likely to endanger human life or property, the Court of Appeal felt it unnecessary to decide how widely the clause may extent on the basis that it was sufficient to say it did not include the Secretary for State.<\/p>\n<p>That decision was ultimately determinative of whether or not the policyholders in this case were able to claim for losses arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, there were three further issues on appeal which will be of interest to the wider policyholder market: (i) whether or not Covid-19 was capable of being an incident; (ii) whether the extension applied on a \u201cper premises\u201d basis; and (iii) whether policy wording referring to \u201cany one claim in the aggregate\u201d contained a mistake capable of correction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can Covid-19 be an \u201c<em>incident<\/em>\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal was asked to consider whether, in the context of the relevant clause, Covid-19 could be an \u201cincident likely to endanger human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal accepted that the word \u201cincident\u201d can be used synonymously with \u201cevent\u201d or \u201coccurrence\u201d but, in ordinary usage, it would generally connote something more dependent on the context in which the word is used. In the context of this wording, \u201cincident\u201d was qualified by something that \u201cendangers human life or property,\u201d so as to require a response from a \u201cpolicing authority\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was common ground that \u201c<em>Covid-19 endangered human life because of the infectious nature of the disease; and taken together with all the other cases of Covid-19 in the country, it called for a response by the Secretary of State<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Further, in this clause, it was clear that the terms \u201cincident\u201d and \u201coccurrence\u201d were being used interchangeably. Therefore, a case of Covid-19 could properly be regarded as an \u201cincident,\u201d and could amount to an \u201cevent\u201d or \u201coccurrence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Although this analysis differs from that of the Divisional Court in the FCA Test Case, where it was held (in the context of the Hiscox NDDA clause) that \u201c<em>it is a misnomer to describe the presence of someone in the radius with the disease as \u201can incident<\/em>\u201d for the purposes of the clause\u201d, the Court of Appeal did not find that the point was wrongly decided by the Divisional Court.\u00a0 Rather, its decision was based on the wording of the clause before it.<\/p>\n<p>The finding that Covid-19 can be an \u201cincident,\u201d in certain contexts, is a potentially significant outcome for other policyholders with \u201cincident\u201d wordings. There are likely to be a number of claims out there that have been in cold storage due to an \u201cincident\u201d wording, which should now be revisited given this apparent thawing on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Per premises<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court\u2019s finding that this wording provided cover on a per premises basis.<\/p>\n<p>When considering whether the wording provided for cover on a per premises basis, the Court of Appeal focused on the specific wording of the clause, and in particular the fact that the insured peril was specific to each of the premises insured. A prevention or restriction of access to each premises would, therefore, give rise to a separate claim to which a separate limit would apply. The insurer\u2019s focus on the defined term \u201cBusiness\u201d (i.e. that it would not \u201c<em>make sense to speak of the business of the premises as distinct from the business of the policyholder<\/em>\u201d) was found to place more weight on the definition that it would bear.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the Court of Appeal noted that the policy drew no distinction between policyholders in the claimant group who owned or operated only one venue, and those who owned or operated multiple venues.\u00a0 In those circumstances, interpreting the policy limit as applying separately to each policyholder rather than to each premises would be \u201c<em>somewhat capricious<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important finding for policyholders with more than one premises in circumstances where insurers are frequently seeking to limit losses to a single limit across multiple premises. Close attention should be paid to the specifics of the wording, as the nuance of the drafted wording and the policy as a whole will dictate whether a per premises argument can be sustained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The insurer\u2019s attempt to introduce an aggregate limit were unsuccessful in the absence of a clear mistake (or at least a mistake with a clear answer).<\/p>\n<p>The insurer\u2019s had attempted to rework the wording of the extension referring to \u201cany one claim in the aggregate\u201d to provide an annual aggregate limit by inserting the word \u201cany one claim <strong><u>and<\/u><\/strong> in the aggregate\u201d. The Court of Appeal found that while it was reasonably clear that something had gone wrong in the language, it was nonetheless far from obvious what solution the parties had intended. It was as likely that the insurer had intended for the limit to apply in the aggregate as it was that the limit was intended to apply to any one claim. The correction proposed by the insurer would result in the words \u201cany one claim\u201d being deprived of any meaning. Accordingly, the judge was correct to have rejected the insurer\u2019s case of construction by correction at first instance.<\/p>\n<p>This decision again confirms the principles in <em>East v Pantiles (Plant Hire) Ltd<\/em> and <em>Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd<\/em>, which were considered recently in another appellate Covid-19 decision, <em>Bellini N\/E Ltd v Brit UW Ltd<\/em>. It serves as a stark reminder that the courts will usually be reluctant to correct mistakes, and the circumstances in which they might do so are limited to those where there is an obvious definitive answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parting Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite a disappointing result on the meaning of \u201cpolicing authority\u201d, this decision has produced renewed hope for policyholders with similar issues in dispute, and it is far from the last word on the various NDDA wordings still out there. Further appeals arising from the <em>Gatwick Investment Ltd v Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe SE<\/em> group of cases are listed for hearing early next year, in addition to other matters proceeding to trial in the commercial court.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fenchurchlaw.com\/en-uk\/people\/joanna-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joanna Grant<\/a>, Managing Partner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fenchurchlaw.com\/en-uk\/people\/anthony-mcgeough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony McGeough,<\/a> Senior Associate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this, the latest in a series of recent Covid-19 BI appeals, the Court of Appeal has handed down judgment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-property-risks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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