Safe Driver Plan

A method of adjusting rates in automobile insurance to reflect driving safety of the insured, in accordance with his or her record of traffic accidents o citations.
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Merit rating of automobile insurance. In most states drivers are charged with points for traffic violations and auto accidents. These points translate to surcharges on the drivers’ insurance rates.

Safe harbor

1. Area or means of protection. 2. Business arrangement that is legal under a specific law but in other circumstances might be considered illegal. 3. Categories defined by the Department of Health and Human Services for practices that technically violate either the antireferral or antikickback statutes but have been exempted from penalty because they are not likely to bring harm to the federal health care programs.

Safe harbor regulation

1. Provision that affords protection from liability or penalty. 2. Protected business arrangement between a managed care plan and physicians in which the arrangement would not violate Medicare fraud and abuse laws. This statute can be found in the Code of Federal Regulations 1001.952.

Safe place of work

At common law means a place of work that an employer has made reasonably safe. He does not have to eliminate every conceivable risk if the burden of doing so is unduly onerous. The duty is higher than the common duty of care under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957. See wORKPLACE REGULATIONS.