Pinnacle Insurance Holdings said the High Court had awarded it...
Pinnacle Insurance holdings said the High Court had awarded it “significant damages and costs” from Aon.
The case was decided in favour of Pinnacle subsidiary USP Strategies, a provider of extended warranty service contracts to customers of electrical retailers in the UK.
The decision, which went against London General Holdings, Aon Warranty Group and Aon Warranty Services, marked the end of a four-year High Court case, said Pinnacle.
During the initial hearing, Aon were found to have unlawfully infringed copyright and breach of confidentiality obligations by His Hon. Judge Weeks QC.
Weeks ruled that Aon had infringed the claimant's (USP Strategies and Unicorn Strategies) copyright, in unlawfully copying an important scheme document.
The document had previously been disclosed to Aon in strict confidence and for the specific purpose of their administration of another scheme, said Pinnacle.
In his judgment, Weeks said, regarding the breach of copyright: “LGH wrongly appropriated the labour and skill of [Unicorn's Solicitors] and so infringed the copyright of Unicorn which has been assigned to USP.”
