Category: Guest Article

Introduction The likely incoming widespread use of automated vehicles (“AVs”) on UK roads (and, specifically, the need to insure them!) will lead to a number of novel issues for insurers. One such issue for...

Guest contributor Daniel West (Partner and Head of Product Liability at HF) considers how the European Commission’s revised Product Liability Directive could change how insurers approach claims against automated vehicle manufacturers if we were...

Guest contributor Daniel West (Head of Product Liability at Horwich Farrelly) considers the role product liability is likely to play in resolving claims involving collisions caused by autonomous vehicles (AVs) driving themselves. Introduction When...

The UK is involved in an international race to develop, demonstrate, validate and safely deploy automated driving technologies. The benefits of connected and automated mobility (CAM) deployment are expected to deliver a step change...

When cars first started to emerge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they were perceived by many as scary, and inherently dangerous. This perception of cars also gave the courts and judiciary...