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Buchanan –v- Eagle Star [1994]

War risks Liberian civil war - Pre-emptive strike to establish non-liability of underwriters.

Main issues: jurisdiction and causation.

A supermarket in the Liberian town of Buchanan was looted in the 1990's by local residents, ahead of the advancing rebel forces by Charles Taylor. Proceedings were brought by underwriters in England for a declaration that the looting was caused by civil ware of insurrection and so outside the scope of policy indemnity.

The court agreed that it was.

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