In August last year we reported on the High Court decision of Grice J in Napier City Council v Local Government Mutual Funds Trustee Limited (Riskpool). In that decision, Her Honour held that the Council was not indemnified under its professional indemnity insurance policy with Riskpool as the claim against it was in respect of both weathertightness and non-weathertightness defects. Consequently, the policy’s weathertightness exclusion clause applied to the entire claim. At the time, we commented that the decision may have come as a surprise to many in the insurance industry as it went against the approach taken by many insurers, which was to differentiate between weathertightness and non-weathertightness defects when considering indemnity. It was only when there was a defect which was caused or contributed to by an excluded peril that was excluded from cover.