Daff v Midland Colliery Owners’ Mutual Indemnity Co Ltd: HL 28 Jul 1913

Where membership of a mutual insurance society had been terminated upon the ground of alleged failure to pay a due call, held that, under the contract, the right to recover compensation for an accident, which had occurred in the past but involved a continuing liability, could not be forfeited, but upon the bankruptcy or liquidation of the late member, his right to recover from the insurer passed, in virtue of section 5 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act 1906, to the injured workman.

51 SLR 564
[1913] UKHL 564, 51 SLR 564
Bailii
England and Wales

Personal Injury, Insurance, Employment

Updated: 04 January 2022; Ref: scu.632747