The Business Law Reports
[2021] Bus LR 366
Queen’s Bench Division
Spire Healthcare Ltd
v
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance plc
[2020] EWHC 3299 (Comm)
2020 Nov 3, 4, 5;Dec 10
Judge Pelling QC sitting as a High Court judge
Insurance— Contract— Construction— Surgeon working at claimant’s hospital performing operations negligently on first group of patents and carrying out unnecessary surgical procedures on second— Groups bringing proceedings against claimant— Claimant seeking indemnity from defendant insurer following settlement of claims— Policy containing aggregation clause in respect of claims consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause— Whether each group of claims consequent on or attributable to one source or original cause— Whether claims to be aggregated