Tort Of Malicious Prosecution Can Arise From Civil Proceedings

This one is actually binding on a very small number of people, being an appeal from the Cayman Islands -- but given that it's a Privy Council decision, it's likely to be influential: Crawford Adjusters v Sagicor General Insurance (Cayman) Ltd, [2013] UKPC 17. The case arose from building works undertaken to repair hurricane damage. Sagicor, the insurer of a residential development, retained Alastair Paterson as a loss adjuster and made payments to Hurlstone, a building company, to repair the development in accordance with the terms of the policy. There were other storms brewing. A senior VP at Sagicor had an animus against Paterson and alleged that Paterson and Hurlstone had perpetrated a fraud on Sagicor; he also told a reporter that Paterson had made misrepresentations, causing damage to Paterson's reputation once the reporter published the information. Paterson counterclaimed for breach of contract and with a tort claim for malicious prosecution. The Cayman trial