ACCIDENT RECORDS CASE
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has confirmed the right of European Union (EU) governments to force EU motor insurance providers into taking a driver's safety and accident record into account when setting policy premiums. Judges threw out a bid by the European Commission to force France and Luxembourg into scrapping such requirements, written into their national laws. Brussels had claimed these 'bonus-malus' systems break the EU 1992 direct insurance directive, by "having automatic and compulsory effects on premium rates", and imposing unnecessary ...
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