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Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation
The European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) in cooperation with the Institute for European Tort Law embarked already in 2009 on a Comparative Project on Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation. The study – conducted in English and led by Ken Oliphant (Institute for European Tort Law, Vienna) and Gerhard Wagner (University of Bonn) – will consist of reports from Austria, Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. With regard to content the study will focus on the compensation of occupational diseases and accidents. Issues like discrimination, moral or sexual harassment and other damages claims of employees against their employer will be dealt with in the reports for countries where these issues are seen as a part of Employers' Liability (e.g. UK, USA), but not in detail. Major aspects of the reports will be a description of different existing compensation schemes, interactions between Employers' Liability and Workers' Compensation, a comparison of both systems and their respective efficiency.
Contributors were invited to a working meeting in Vienna November 4, 2010 so as to discuss issues arising and comparative conclusions to be drawn.
Munich Re kindly hosted and paid for a conference on the topic on February 25, 2011, where selected highlights from the project rather than a complete overview were presented.
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