English Justice Upholds Tribunals’ ‘Catastrophe’ Application In COVID-19 Cases

(February 12, 2024, 1:31 PM EST) -- LONDON — Ruling in part that arbitration tribunals in two cases concerning the COVID-19 pandemic correctly concluded “that there had been a catastrophe for the purposes of the relevant Reinsurances,” a justice of the High Court of England and Wales on Feb. 9 dismissed an appeal in one case and allowed an appeal in the other case only as to the operation of an “Hours Clause.”...