In March 2025, the UK Court of Appeal found that a provision in a warehousekeeper’s policy that it was a condition precedent to the insurer’s liability that during the currency of the policy the warehousekeeper “continuously trades under the conditions declared and approved by underwriters in writing” was a future warranty not a representation. The

In this English judgment, the court considered whether it was appropriate to impute to individual underwriters’ material information they did not actually know, but the claims team did. 

The George Hotel was destroyed in a fire in July 2019.  The first claimant, The George on High Limited, owned the hotel but the hotel and