Insurers pick at Stonegate’s causation and aggregation arguments as Covid BI trial continues
The High Court battle between the UK’s biggest pub group and three insurers – MS Amlin, Liberty Mutual and Zurich – continued on Tuesday with the insurers taking issue with the pub group’s submissions regarding causation and aggregation.
Following opening statements from Stonegate, represented by Ben Lynch QC, on Monday, Gavin Kealey QC, representing the insurers, opened on Tuesday by addressing causation.
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