Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Work Injury Compensation Insurance
27. Insurer not to object on ground of double insurance
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In any proceedings under Part 4, an employer’s insurer or a platform operator’s insurer is not entitled to raise any objection or defence to a claim on the ground that there is in force another insurance policy issued by another insurer covering the same liability under this Act in respect of the claim as the insurance policy issued by the employer’s insurer or platform operator’s insurer, as the case may be.
employer
“employer” means any person (A) who employs an individual (B) under a contract of service and includes —(a)the Government, if B belongs to a class or description of employees of the Government declared to be employees for the purposes of this Act under paragraph (a) of the definition of “employee”;(b)the legal personal representative of A, if A is deceased;(c)a duly authorised agent or manager of A;(d)the person who owns or is carrying on, or for the time being is responsible for the management of, the profession, business, trade or work in which B is engaged; and(e)where B is employed for the purpose of any game or recreation and engaged or paid through a club, the manager or members of the managing committee of that club.
Nothing in subsection (1) affects any other law —
on double insurance and contribution; or (b)that prohibits an insurer from disproving liability, in whole or in part, in respect of any accident.