Our firm successfully represented the insurers in a recent appeal involving an RM1 million compensation claim brought by a plantation owner. The Court of Appeal dismissed the attempt to compel insurers to indemnify the claimant, finding that statutory requirements and policy conditions had not been met.

This decision confirms that the common law duty of utmost good faith is in tandem with the provisions of the Financial Services Act 2013 and has not been abolished by the same. The other important point upheld is that insurers have no duty to warn an insured to comply with the terms or the existence of exclusion clauses.

Media coverage:
Free Malaysia Today – Planter fails in bid to force insurance firms to pay RM1mil in claims
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https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/11/18/planter-fails-in-bid-to-force-insurance-firms-to-pay-rm1mil-in-claims