article_snippet: Judges said a UK law that allowed insurers to refuse paying people involved in crime compensation contravenes an EU directive .
article_snippet: However senior have ruled that the UK policy of refusing to compensate accident victims who have been knowingly involved in crime contravenes EU directives concerning motor insurance.
article_snippet: motor insurance have ordered The Department of Transport Transport to pick up the bill for the breach.
article_snippet: Officials claimed Officials were covered by the 'crime exception' enforced by the Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) bans insurance being paid to those who 'knew or ought to have known' that a vehicle in which Officials are travelling is being used 'in the course or furtherance of a crime'.
article_snippet: However he solicitors then launched a claim against the Government for breach of the 2009 European Motor Insurance Directive which, in the interests of standardisation, allows no exclusions.
article_snippet: It was claimed that the insurers' exclusion clause in UK law was incompatible with the European Motor Insurance Directive.
article_snippet: Sitting at the High Court last year, Mr Justice Jay ruled that the crime exception conflicted with the European Motor Insurance Directive and the DfT should have ensured uniformity.
highlights_snippet: Insurers refused due to clause excluding vehicles involved in crime .
  
highlights_snippet: But senior judges ruled exclusion clause is in breach of EU motor laws .
  
highlights_snippet: As a result Government must pay costs and compensation for breach of EU motor laws .
  