Time to focus on liability

Most employers don't spend too much time thinking about employers' liability, public liability and product liability unless they actually have a claim. So perhaps it is just as well that the national media is continually drawing attention to tragic incidents where such policies are likely to come into play.

This October four people were killed on a ride at the Dreamworld theme park on Queensland's Gold Coast in Australia, while only the previous month Alton Towers operator Merlin Entertainments had been