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Supreme Court 6 December 2019: Insurance portfolios, and portfolios in general, cannot be transferred/pledged
On Friday, in a long-awaited judgment, the Supreme Court determined that, since an insurance portfolio is not a property right, it cannot be transferred or pledged. Whilst in the first instance this has implications for the insurance sector, the judgment has a bearing on all sectors in which portfolios are…
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Supreme Court 15 December 2017: How do you assess damage to a living thing such as a tree?
This judgment is an interesting one for contractors and municipalities. In 2010, while doing excavation work to replace a low-voltage cabinet, Liander damaged a tree belonging to the municipality. The municipality brought in an appraiser, who estimated the damage at €4,968. When preparing this appraisal, the expert referred…
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Supreme Court 15 December 2017: Notice of default not always required when a contractor defaults
This judgment is an interesting one for contractors and the people who advise them. It concerns an agreement between a client and a contractor in Curaçao, for the latter to renovate the client’s house. The client was not satisfied with the result and took the contractor to court. One of the…
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