LIABILITY, LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND INSURANCE
6.1 The Law Firm Poul Schmith is liable to pay
damages according to Danish law for the consequences of mistakes
made by the law firm's partners and staff.
6.2 Liability for the Law Firm Poul Schmith and
for the law firm's partners and staff is, however, in any respect
subject to the following
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:
- Liability does not cover indirect losses, including inter alia
consequential losses and the loss of time, profit, data, goodwill
and image.
- Liability does not cover fines or the like whether they befall
to the public or the private sector ("punitive damages").
- Liability does not cover claims advanced in the United States
or Canada.
- Liability does not cover the liability for other consultants
to whom we have left parts of the assignment according to an
agreement with the client, or whom the client has engaged on our
referral.
- The total amount of compensation for the consequences of one
given damage cannot exceed DKK 75 million. All claims shall be
considered consequences of one given damage if they are caused by
the same continuous or repeated actionable matter, and whether or
not one or more of the persons for whom we are liable have incurred
liabilities and whether or not one or more claimants can assert
claims on account of the matter.
6.3 The Law Firm Poul Schmith has taken out a
professional indemnity insurance and provided a guarantee in
accordance with the regulations of the Danish Bar and Law Society.
The indemnity insurance covers performance of all legal practice
from our office in Denmark, irrespective of the actual place of
performance of the legal practice.
6.4 The indemnity insurance and the guarantee
of the Law Firm Poul Schmith are placed at Codan Forsikring.
Contact person is business insurance agent Ejvind P. Christensen
(telephone no. +45 33 55 55 55 and +45 33 55 40 78, e-mail ech@codan.dk).