Further steps to reform the insurance industry are now in place.
The Justice Minister is starting Updated Duty of Care legislation today.
This legislation being commenced by Minister Helen McEntee will try and strike the right balance between ensuring businesses, community groups and organisers of events fulfil their duty of care responsibilities.
It will also highlight the importance of personal responsibility of visitors, recreational users and trespassers.
It's being described as a key element of insurance reform and an important step in efforts to make insurance cheaper and more accessible.
The amendments change the standard to clarify when the occupier of a property has acted with reckless disregard for a recreational user or trespasser, the standard of reckless disregard rather than that of reasonable grounds should apply, in relation to any consideration of liability.
They limit the circumstances in which a court can impose liability on the occupier of a premises where a person has entered onto premises for the purpose of committing an offence.
