Irlanda

Welcome to this month’s edition of Insurance Brief. In this issue, we report on a recent decision concerning an insurance company’s liability under a performance bond that had been varied without its knowledge and another which reviewed the effect of a “follow the leader” clause. We also include a feature article by Rachel Lee from our Dublin office, which focuses on a recent case highlighting the Irish courts’ increasingly tough stance on claimant delays.

A recent interim application to the Master of the Irish High Court in Walsh v Kearney & Ors [2007] has shown how defendants in Irish litigation can bring pressure to bear on plaintiffs and have costs quantified immediately where a costs order is secured.