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Liability Newsletter 1/2010. Professionals are well-qualified individuals in a certain, expert area that others usually have little or limited knowledge in. Therefore their advice is trusted upon. With this power comes responsibility. Liability for damage or loss can be severe – Professional Indemnity Insurance provides safety against such liability.

Liability Newsletter 2/2009. Under the latest case law, an employer takes on most of the financial risk of an a employee being treated as well as possible by administrative systems in the form of the Industrial Injuries Agency, in the municipality – and by the insurance company. So now, more than ever, employers have a direct financial interest in ensuring optimum treatment by both the national system and insurance companies.

Liability Newsletter 2/2009. Med den seneste retspraksis overtager man som arbejdsgiver i høj grad den økonomiske risiko for, at en ansat bliver behandlet optimalt i de administrative systemer i form af Arbejdsskadestyrelsen, i kommunen – og hos forsikringsselskabet.

Liability Newsletter 1/2009. Since 1988, patient claims have been assessed under two different sets of regulations. If the injury was caused in a public hospital, the claim was assessed and settled under the rules for the provisional order on patient claims payments. This was a public order based on specified responsibility, and administered by the Norwegian System of Compensation to Patients (NPE). However, claims arising in the private health sector were assessed and settled under general payment laws, and were handled by professional liability insurance in private insurance companies. The intention of introducing new patient claims legislation was that all patient claims should be handled under the same regulatory framework irrespective of the health sector in which the claim arose. So far, the legislation has been applied only in the public health sector, where claims are paid by the public and administered by the NPE, but, from 1 January 2009, it will also apply to the private health sector.