The Insurance and Indemnity – the trendsurfing digest published an article “Interpretation of the concept of “willful breach of an obligation” in judicial practice” by Daryana Epikhina, a Senior Associate from Petrol Chilikov.

A clause on the release of the insurer from liability for an insured event that occurred as a result of the intent of the insurant, beneficiary or insured person is widely found in insurance contracts and is the implementation of item 1, Paragraph 1, Article 963 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. What is the standard for proving the existence of intent in a person’s conduct?

Full text of the article here (in Russian).