See: TEST OF REASONABLENESS.
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Reasonably practicable
Regulation 12(3) of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 (and other regulations): ‘all floors, steps, stairs, passages, and gangways shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, be kept free from any obstruction and from any substance likely to cause a person to slip’. This is the lowest of the duties (compare with properly maintained and all practicable steps). The occupier can weigh the cost against the risk and the expected efficacy of the measures. Reasonable practicability is considered stricter than negligence and it is for the employer to prove that compliance was impracticable.
Reasonably prudent person standard –
Standard that compares one’s actions to what a reasonable prudent person would do in a similar situation. For example, a reasonably prudent employer would ensure that the premises was safe and free from unsafe working conditions, or a reasonably prudent person would mop up spilled water on the floor.
Reassured
The company that purchases reinsurance
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See: Cedent, Ceding Company, Reinsured.
Reassured (Reinsurance)
A term used to refer to a company that obtains reinsurance coverage.
Reauthorization
Permission to extend an inpatient hospital stay beyond the number of days originally approved.
Rebate
A deduction taken from a set payment or charge. As a rebate is given after payment of the full amount has been made, it differs from a discount which is deducted in advance of the payment. In foreign trade, a full or partial rebate may be given on import duties paid on goods which are later re-exported.
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An incentive offered to the insured for purchasing the insurance, such as money taken from the agent’s commission and given to the insured. This type of incentive is illegal. Reduced premiums or rate adjustments are not considered rebates and are therefore legal.
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In insurance, a portion of an agent’s commission returned to a customer as an inducement to place the insurance through the agent. This practice is illegal in most jurisdictions as against public policy.
Rebate Only Personal Pension
Personal pension built up solely of national insurance contribution rebates paid by DWP to the pension provider. It applies whenever a member has elected to contract out of the state second pension by means of a personal pension but makes no actual contributions.
Rebating
See: antirebate law .
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Generally illegal practice, by an Insurer’s representative, or returning to an insured a portion of a commission or any other valuable inducement to buy Insurance from that representative. In India every proposal form for general Insurance business contains the following text: “Prohibition of rebating Your attention is respectfully invited to Sec. 41 of the Insurance Act 1938 which reads as follows: 01. No person shall allow or offer to allow, either Directly or indirectly as an inducement to any person to take out or renew or continue an Insurance in respect of any kind of risk relating to lives or property in India, any rebate of the premium shown on the Policy, nor shall any person taking out or renewing or continuing a Policy accept any rebate, except such rebate as may be allowed in accordance with the published prospectuses or tables of the Company. 02. Any person making default in complying with the provision of this section shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.:
Rebellion
The taking up of arms traitorously against the government of the state. It is a graver form of insurrection for general purposes in which there is usurped power amounting to treason. (F.H. Jones).