Professional Legal Expense Insurance For Colleges - Bill C-45: New in Canada
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This new product is available to all Educational Colleges throughout Canada and provides for the payment of legal fees incurred in defending charges of criminal negligence brought pursuant to the Criminal Code.
Bill C-45 made amendments to The Criminal Code whereby under the new section 217.1
“Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task”
i.e. an explicit duty has been established on the part of those with responsibility for directing the work of others, requiring them to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm arising to those whom they direct. Thus persons in positions of authority are responsible for their subordinates’ health and safety.
