Insurers fear there might be a deliberate shift toward targeting merchant vessels

Verdict could go either way, with legally well-founded claim for limitation pitched against understandable anger of entire city

Brokers still play vital role despite rise of disintermediation, insists Louise Nevill

Run of rate hikes in recent years ‘overdone’, according to biggest marine broker

‘P&I jungle’ is ‘full of dangerous and difficult issues’, argues broker Tysers

Law and insurance editor David Osler assembles a stellar line-up at the International Union of Marine Insurance annual conference in Berlin to assess the strength of the market in 2024

A long legal battle over the financial consequences of the Dali casualty lies ahead. The myriad claims filed in the Limitation of Liability Act case highlight just how far-reaching the fallout was, hitting everything from land-based businesses to ocean shipping to government coffers

Keeping trade flowing is a moral endeavour, and shipping’s insurers deserve credit

‘If I were a criminal, this would be a very good business case. It’s a lot of money with very low risk,’ says Zurich risk management specialist

High retention rates indicate underwriting policy ‘appears to be not only disciplined but also acceptable to members,’ according to Tysers

The US government alleges that Dali’s transformer and circuit breakers were impacted by a previously known ‘heavy vibration’ problem, prior power outages were not reported as they should have been, and the bridge disaster would have been avoided if the transformer was not wrongly set to manual mode and two auxiliary engines were not wrongly fueled by flushing pumps

‘Containerships are not intrinsically safe but are designed to be safely operable,’ argues project manager