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Luggage insurance
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• Ninety-nine per cent of the general public who went abroad by coach believed that their luggage was covered by the company in case of accident, said Mr, Gwilym Roberts (Labour, South Bedfordshire) in the Commons last week. But, he said, there was evidence to show that passengers were frequently not fully covered by insurance unless the liability of the coach company could be fully proved.
He urged the President of the Board of Trade to take steps to close this type of insurance loophole in this and other forms of transport.
Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody. the Parliamentary Secretary, told him that the liabilities of coach operators for damage to the luggage of their passengers were usually governed by the conditions of carriage. It was for the operators to decide whether to insure against these liabilities. In general the conditions of carriage, not the degree of insurance, limited the extent to which claims by passengers were entertained.
Mrs. Dunwoody pointed out that the Law Commission was at present considering, in relation to contracts for services generally, how far it should be permissible to contract out of common law liabilities.