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Damage to Goods Means Physical Damage


by David Semark
Alan Curran
Reed Smith LLP View Firm Credentials
Pittsburgh Office

June 18, 2008

Previously published on May 2008

Ever since the 1957 decision of the House of Lords in Renton v Palmyra [1956] 2 Lloyd's Rep 379, (a case on Article III Rule 8) it has been settled that the words "loss or damage to or in connection with goods" as used in the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules are not limited to actual loss or physical damage but are wide enough to include claims for consequential loss - such as claims for delay.


 

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