Case: Zurich made to pay £223k due to false IHT investment advice

A 96-year old English woman who has not lived in the UK since 1948 has been awarded £223,000 in damages from Zurich, after the High Court ruled one of the insurer’s representatives had given her inheritance tax advice based ‘on an entirely false foundation

The case concerned Angela Lenderink-Woods, who was born in the UK but who acquired a domicile of dependency in the Netherlands following her marriage to a Dutch naval captain in 1944, after which she lived in a number of overseas locations. Since 1980 she has been resident in Costa Rica. [Angela Lenderink-Woods and Zurich Assurance Ltd, Zurich Advice Network Ltd, Cherry Lenderink, [2016] EWHC 3287 (Ch) Case No: A50MA133].

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