REVISITING THE FIVE-POWERS WAR RISK EXCLUSION
Journal: International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Year: 2024

Abstract Marine war risk insurance fundamentally contemplates casualties caused by international conflict. Curiously, however, standard clauses also exclude cover and automatically terminate war risk policies in the event of an outbreak of war between a select group of historically powerful States: China, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia. This article aims to demystify the origins of this five-powers clause and evaluate its prospective application through the lens of an e