Insurers lose $64mn battle over bomb-blast hull loss

A number of Lloyd's insurers have lost a $64.4mn UK
Commercial Court battle over a shipping loss that has been linked
to the murder of a British loss adjuster.
The four-week trial in the UK court related to the loss of the
Liberia-registered MV Brillante Virtuoso in 2011,
following an apparent boarding and attack by pirates off the
Somalian coast.
Its then owner, Marshall Island-registered Suez Fortune
Investments, claims a fire started by the pirates led to a total
constructive...