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Challenges to the validity of local council levies
The way that local councils issue special levies, and deal with errors made in the passing of those levies, has come under spotlight in the recent High Court of Australia decision.
In this edition of Insurance focus Tyler Dillard in our London office considers the revolution of the sharing economy and reflects on how insurers have an opportunity to benefit from this growing market.
Following the announcement that the European Commission is minded not to renew the Insurance Block Exemption regulation, Mark Tricker in our London office considers the challenges that the insurance market might face without the benefit of the competition safe-harbour.
From our Amsterdam office, Floortje Nagelkerke, Nikolai de Koning and Recep Altun consider the scrutiny of ‘integrity risk’ being undertaken by the Dutch Central Bank.
In our quarterly review of cases we include two recent cases from Australia that consider section 54 of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984; we review ‘Wellington Motions’ under the law of Quebec; from Texas we consider the scope of the Prompt Payments Act and finally, we consider the likely impact of a recent German Supreme Court case on brokers’ role in the payment of claims.
In our regular international focus section we provide updates from both the London and Australian markets.
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The way that local councils issue special levies, and deal with errors made in the passing of those levies, has come under spotlight in the recent High Court of Australia decision.
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On 22 February 2024, Belgium became the EU frontrunner in the fight against ecocides by being the first EU member state to criminalise ecocide, in the new Belgian Criminal Code.
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The Pensions Regulator’s General Code has arrived and will apply from March 27, 2024. In this briefing, we take a step back from the detail. We set out why the General Code really matters and how pension scheme trustees can best make it work for them.
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