The defendant company provided for the hire of a chauffeur if the insured was disqualified from driving.
Held: Contracts of insurance are not confined to contracts for the payment of money, but may include a contract for some benefit corresponding to the payment of money.
Templeman J referred to Prudential and said: ‘That definition, including Channell J’s careful pronouncement that there must either be the payment of a sum or some corresponding benefit, seems to me to meet the present case and particularly so when, in substance, there seems to me to be no difference between the defendant company paying a chauffeur on the one hand and on the other hand agreeing to pay to the individual member a sum of money which would represent the cost to him of providing himself with a chauffeur in the event of his being disabled from driving himself. I cannot see any difference in logic between the two and therefore I see no reason why, in the present case, the arrangement made by the defendant company should not amount to insurance.’
References: [1974] 1 WLR 99
Judges: Templeman J
Jurisdiction: England and Wales
This case cites:
- Cited – Prudential Insurance Co v Inland Revenue Commissioners ([1904] 2 KB 658)
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