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Liability Risk and Insurance

No insurance for sand guides

This month’s “meanie insurers” story concerns the guides who take charity groups across Morecambe Bay. Insurers have apparently refused to provide public liability insurance for the guides who take people across the shifting sands of the Bay. Insurers were reported to be worried by the deaths of a number of Chinese cockle pickers last year.

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