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Increases in health and safety fines implications for companies and insurers

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 14 2011

Fines for criminal offences such as breaches of health and safety law cannot be indemnified by insurance and must be paid by the company

Government scheme to cap recovery of acquitted defendants’ costs at legal aid rates overturned

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 17 2010

In our last Briefing, we updated you on the Law Society's application to overturn the Lord Chancellor's new scheme whereby acquitted defendants (or their insurers) who pay privately for their defence costs would only be able to recover a small proportion of those costs from Central Funds, capped at legal aid rates

RRAC report says insurers could be confusing their customers in relation to health and safety compliance

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 31 2009

In July 2009, the Risk and Regulation Advisory Council (RRAC) released a report into the challenges faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in complying with their obligations under health and safety law