Won’t any insurance be void anyway due to the dodgy pilot and plane?
Depends on the ts and cs of the policy.
Any sensible aviation insurer would accept the risk based on the plane being up to scratch and the pilot having enough experience - if someone has not told the truth along the way then chances are that the insurers won’t pay out.
The pilot was not qualified to fly at night under IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) so I would say as an insurer that is huge way out of not paying.
Bit like someone driving a vehicle without a license.
Have to say i don't see how Cardiff have much of a case here.
Cardiff City tried to take out £20 million in insurance on star player Emiliano Sala the morning after he was killed in a plane crash, a court heard - as the club sues insurers for £10 million damages.
Argentine striker Sala, 28, died in a private flight from France to Wales as he travelled to take up his new role with the club. But Cardiff failed to get cover for the star before his plane went down as he flew from Nantes, the insurance company revealed.
The football club - owned by Malaysian billionaire Vincent Tan - is suing insurance broker Miller Insurance LLP - claiming it owes more than £10 million in a High Court bid. The club claimed the firm failed to say players would not be covered if they were not 'timely informed' of new signings such as their new star striker.
But lawyers representing the brokers said it was not up to them to 'chase' club bosses over making sure new signings were insured and that City was 'fully aware' Sala was not covered.
Alistair Schaff KC told the High Court that Cardiff City contacted insurers regarding Sala on January 22, 2019 - the morning after his flight went missing off the coast of Alderney.
IAN HERBERT: Grubby, classless, the five-year legal battle over plane crash victim Emiliano Sala takes us into football's sewers... where players are pawns and chronically inept clubs desperately try to save cash
Club civil proceedings against Willie McKay, relating to legal action against FC Nantes, were due to be heard in Cardiff but have now been discontinued.
Consential losses which are presumably 'we think we'd have stayed up if he'd not died' - how that's a loss as a result of any legal liability on Nantes's part I haven't a clue.
Consential losses which are presumably 'we think we'd have stayed up if he'd not died' - how that's a loss as a result of any legal liability on Nantes's part I haven't a clue.
This is quite grotesque. Fairly sure Sala's family haven't received anything like £100m to cover the "consequential losses" of their son dying (not that you can put any price on that).
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If the installments were due to be paid based on appearances/goals/whether he was contracted at Cardiff for the following seasons, it would be void.
Quite an interesting listen so far with a lot of focus on the background to the transfer.
The pilot of Emiliano Sala's plane told friends the aircraft was "dodgy" before the flight that killed the Argentine footballer, it can be revealed.
David Ibbotson is heard in exclusive audio obtained by the BBC saying "I'll be wearing my life jacket" on the journey from France to Wales.
He told a friend he heard a "bang" on a previous flight. The plane crashed into the English Channel in 2019.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62594529
Bit like someone driving a vehicle without a license.
Emiliano Sala: 'A tragic plane crash; a stain on football's reputation'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63172547The English Football League has lifted the transfer embargo on Championship strugglers Cardiff City.
The move follows Cardiff paying the first instalment of the £15m transfer fee for striker Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash en route to joining the club in January 2019.
The Bluebirds are no longer on the EFL's list of embargoed clubs.
Global governing body Fifa has yet to confirm whether its separate embargo has also been lifted.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64236759
Cardiff City tried to take out £20 million in insurance on star player Emiliano Sala the morning after he was killed in a plane crash, a court heard - as the club sues insurers for £10 million damages.
Argentine striker Sala, 28, died in a private flight from France to Wales as he travelled to take up his new role with the club. But Cardiff failed to get cover for the star before his plane went down as he flew from Nantes, the insurance company revealed.
But lawyers representing the brokers said it was not up to them to 'chase' club bosses over making sure new signings were insured and that City was 'fully aware' Sala was not covered.
Alistair Schaff KC told the High Court that Cardiff City contacted insurers regarding Sala on January 22, 2019 - the morning after his flight went missing off the coast of Alderney.
IAN HERBERT: Grubby, classless, the five-year legal battle over plane crash victim Emiliano Sala takes us into football's sewers... where players are pawns and chronically inept clubs desperately try to save cash
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12997561/IAN-HERBERT-Emiliano-Sala.htmlCardiff City FC have reached an out-of-court deal with an agent over the release of documents and messages about the transfer of player Emiliano Sala.
The plane Sala was in from France crashed over the Channel in January 2019, killing him and the pilot.
Club civil proceedings against Willie McKay, relating to legal action against FC Nantes, were due to be heard in Cardiff but have now been discontinued.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68235543
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckmj4gedjr5o
Consential losses which are presumably 'we think we'd have stayed up if he'd not died' - how that's a loss as a result of any legal liability on Nantes's part I haven't a clue.