South Africa:
Claims Preparation Costs Clarified By The South African High Court
10 February 2016
Clyde & Co
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The on-going debate regarding CPC's has been clarified in a
High Court judgement granted on 3 February 2016.
The judge held that it was clear that CPC's were "aimed
at compensating the insured in respect of those particulars of
details that the defendant had requested and not those costs the
plaintiff incurred of its own accord and in order to determine the
costs of reinstating the property".
Each case would need to be dealt with on their own facts, and
the particular policy wording.
The observations made by the judge do however accord with the
views which we have expressed consistently in the past.
Claims Preparation Costs Clarified By The South African High Court
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