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Like many other littoral states within the United States, Washington has exercised the right to legislate its own oil pollution prevention and response requirements. Vessels must comply with both state...

The Club's analysis of significant claims found that approximately 5% of all severe personal injuries happened during mooring or towing operations. Although a substantial proportion of these claims resulted...

In September 2025, West renewed its landmark agreement with Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS), continuing its collaboration to deliver bunker fuel quality insights through the Club’s Neptune portal.

The United States Coast Guard has recently published a final rule announcing that the limits of liability for vessels under OPA'90 are to be increased by around 10% to reflect rises in the Consumer Price...

The Board met on 12 May 2021 to approve the Report and Accounts for the year ending 20 February 2021 for The West of England Ship Owners Mutual Insurance Association (Luxembourg) and are pleased to report...

On 24 February 2023, the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US Department of State and the US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on...

The West is pleased to announce that Suumit Madhu will join the Club’s London Underwriting Team as a Senior Underwriter on Tuesday 14th April.

We are pleased to announce the expansion of our New York office. Senior Claims Manager Emily McCulloch transferred to New York from London at the beginning of the year and will be joined by Alton Peralta.