This week: All at sea

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The fraudulent claims we’re used to hearing about involve banged-up cars and invented cases of whiplash. Ones involving oil tankers, pirates, the Admiralty Judge, and statements given in places as far-flung as Aden and Manila are somewhat harder to come by.

Seven-year legal proceedings over the destruction of the oil tanker Brilliante Virtuoso by pirates in 2011 came to a close this week with a High Court judge ruling that insurers did not need to cover

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