From: "Firearms News", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone on Cybershooters recently mentioned that the French insurers deal with range safety, not the army or the police. As I was wading through May's news cuttings of bank robberies (up 81 per cent in London according to the Evening Standard), it occurred to me that the insurance companies will be having to fork out for all these robberies. The costs may not only be the cash taken - what about staff traumatised by the experience? In this litigious age, they've got to be suing someone. It can't be the robbers because they'll typically have no saleable assets and they won't be insured. Criminal injuries compensation board (no personal experience) is, I hear, hardly worth bothering with. So it's got to be the bank they work for and the bank's insurers as they'll be liable, I think, under Employers Liability which is mandatory in the UK. If the insurers came round to thinking that armed guards in banks could be a good way of reducing losses, that might be another means of chipping away at existing legislation - it's not just the antis who can mete out death by a thousand cuts! This needs some work doing on it to see if it'll stand up and sadly I don't have the time right now. But there must be people out there on the lists who have the relevant expertise either in insurance or legal areas and if I can put a few of them together - who knows? Please contact me off list if you're interested. Regards Graham Sheard, Editor. http://firearms-news.webjump.com -------[Cybershooters contacts]-------- Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
