Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2019
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017: Committee Stage
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The whole of section 17 will be subject to review. This section places responsibility on the consumer to notify the insurance company of an accident or an insured event within a reasonable timeframe. The legislation states clearly that the consumer must do so provided the terms of the contract are in compliance with section 17. Section 17 is about unfair and onerous terms. This refers to, for example, a contract that provides that an event must be reported within 30 minutes or something like that. That would be-----
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