The Weekly Law Reports
[2014] 2 WLR 948
Supreme Court
Cox
v
Ergo Versicherung AG
[2014] UKSC 22
2014 Jan 20,
21;
April 2
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury PSC, Lord Mance, Lord Sumption, Lord Toulson, Lord Hodge JJSC
Conflict of laws— Tort— Assessment of damages— Englishman hit by car and killed in Germany— Driver of car German national insured by German insurance company— Widow claiming damages in England for bereavement and loss of dependency— Whether English or German law applicable to assessment of damages— Whether Fatal Accidents Act 1976 having any application— Whether restrictions on damages in German statute procedural or substantive—
Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (c 30), ss 1A, 3(1)(3), 4 (as substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c 53), s 3)