by Hamlet Heneke | Sep 23, 2020 | Insurance law, News, Publications
Short term insurance is regulated by the Short-Term Insurance Act no. 53 of 1998 as amended. The Policy holder (“Insured”) can insure various items, whether it be household contents, motor vehicles or personal items. Insurance is important, in the sense...
by Hamlet Heneke | Aug 18, 2020 | Insurance law, Publications
The principle of the contracting parties to an insurance contract must contract in good faith is an essential building block of an insurance contract. The same applies to non-indemnity insurance ( or “sommeversekering”), an example: life insurance policies which form...
by Raeesa Ebrahim Atkinson | Jul 3, 2020 | Commercial law, Insurance law, Publications
There has been enough said on the negative effects experienced in the commercial sector as a result of the Covid-19 National Lockdown. However, as we move through the various stages restrictions and inadvertently, peaks and troughs in productivity; it is important to...
by Raeesa Ebrahim Atkinson | Apr 19, 2020 | Insurance law, Publications
If not by experience; we all have at least heard one recollection of an event from a friend, colleague or family member, where a medical aid scheme has rejected cover for a specified medicine or medical procedure. The Covid-19 virus and its associated heightened risk...
by Raeesa Ebrahim Atkinson | Apr 8, 2020 | Commercial law, Insurance law, Publications
On the backdrop of national lock-downs, government imposed sanitary measures and self-isolation; business owners are left with burning questions and neck-bending deliberations in relation to business survivability and contingency measures. How prepared are we? Have...
by Hamlet Heneke | Apr 1, 2020 | Employment law, Insurance law, Publications
Amid the lockdown imposed in South Africa, the pressure on businesses who are still trading and operating due to being deemed an essential service is going to be immense, particularly small businesses that render essential services. To check whether your business is...
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