INSURANCE AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 32, 6 August 1927, Page 9

INSURANCE AT SEA

RISKS OF PASSENGERS

INTERNATIONAL MEETING

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) AMSTERDAM, sth August. The International Maritime Committee debated a draft convention on compulsory'insurance of passengers. Sir Norman Hill (adviser to the Liverpool and London War Risks Association) declared that since the war the_ dissatisfaction of passengers with their legal status had become even more serious. The only methods of settling tho problem were reliance on common law, which was often illusory for passengers, or reliance on a draft convention based on compulsory insurance. He therefore proposed a resolution that a snb-committee be instructed to draft an international convention embodying insurance, which would ensure the support of passengers and shipowners. Drs. Seiveking, Bagge, and Asser, on behalf of Germany, Sweden, and Holland respectively, expressed fear that Sir Norman Hill's resolution would imply the meeting's agreement to the draft convention.

Finally, the meeting unanimously agreed to a resolution, instructing the sub-committee to devise a draft convention, based, if possible, on a system of insurance which would be likely to secure the unanimous approval of the Maritime Committee.