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Research Handbook on International Insurance Law and Regulation
Edited by Julian Burling and Kevin Lazarus
Given its economic importance, insurance is a field that has been underserved as an area of academic study. This detailed book provides much needed coverage of insurance law and regulation in its international context.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 31 Jan 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781849807883
- eISBN:
- 9781849807890
- Pages:
- 896
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- Research Handbook on International Insurance Law and Regulation
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- LLOYD'S
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Table of cases
- Table of legislation
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Insurance Contract Law
- Chapter 2: Methodology: Applying Economics to Insurance Law – An Introduction
- Chapter 3: Definition: Different Common Law and Civil Law Approaches to the Definition of Insurance
- Chapter 4: Pre-contractual Information Duties: The Insured’s Pre-Contractual Duty of Disclosure – Convergence Across the Jurisdictional Divide
- Chapter 5: Contract Terms: Judicial Approaches to the Interpretation of Insurance Contracts
- Chapter 6: Claims: An Overview of the US Tort of ‘Bad Faith’ – A Common Law Approach to Regulating Insurer Claims Handling and Settlements
- Chapter 7: Reinsurance: Finding the Balance between Reinsurers’ and Reinsureds’ interests
- Chapter 8: Closing Books of Business: The Challenge of Fairness and Finality
- Chapter 9: Choice of Law: New York and English Approaches to Insurance and Reinsurance Contracts
- Chapter 10: An Introduction to Insurance Regulation
- Chapter 11: History: A History of Insurance Regulation in the UK
- Chapter 12: International Organisations: Their Role and Interconnectivity in Insurance Regulation
- Chapter 13: Transnational Supervisory Recognition: A Macro-jurisdictional Overview
- Chapter 14: Principles-based Insurance Regulation: Lessons to be Learned from a Comparison of the EU and German Law of Risk Management
- Chapter 15: Conduct of Business Regulation: A Survey of the UK Regime and a Comparison with the US, German and Hong Kong Approach
- Chapter 16: Enforcement: A Survey of Three Approaches to Insurance Regulatory Enforcement: The USA, the UK and Sweden
- Chapter 17: Lloyd’s: Its Authorisation in the United Kingdom and Overseas
- Chapter 18: Lloyd’s: The Development of Performance Management
- Chapter 19: Microinsurance: The Value Proposition at the Base of the Pyramid
- Chapter 20: Takaful Insurance: Squaring the Insurance Circle in Islamic Law
- Chapter 21: Alternative Risk Transfer: Risk Transfer Solutions at the Margins of Insurability – The Legal and Regulatory Challenges
- Chapter 22: E-Commerce: The Regulation of Insurance in the Age of the Internet
- Chapter 23: Europe: Towards a Harmonised European Insurance Contract Law – The PEICL
- Chapter 24: Europe: The Architecture and Content of EU Insurance Regulation
- Chapter 25: USA: A Regulatory Overview of the World’s Largest Insurance Market
- Chapter 26: Singapore: Maintaining a Law and Regulation for a Modern Trading State
- Chapter 27: Brazil: The Transition of Law and Regulation from State Control to Market Freedom
- Chapter 28: China: Developments in Insurance Law and Regulation in the People’s Republic
- Chapter 29: Japan: The Insurance Concept in the Insurance Act and the Insurance Business Act
- Chapter 30: South Africa: Insurance Law and Regulation in the Rainbow Nation
- Index
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- Research Handbook on International Insurance Law and Regulation
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- LLOYD'S
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Table of cases
- Table of legislation
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Insurance Contract Law
- Chapter 2: Methodology: Applying Economics to Insurance Law – An Introduction
- Chapter 3: Definition: Different Common Law and Civil Law Approaches to the Definition of Insurance
- Chapter 4: Pre-contractual Information Duties: The Insured’s Pre-Contractual Duty of Disclosure – Convergence Across the Jurisdictional Divide
- Chapter 5: Contract Terms: Judicial Approaches to the Interpretation of Insurance Contracts
- Chapter 6: Claims: An Overview of the US Tort of ‘Bad Faith’ – A Common Law Approach to Regulating Insurer Claims Handling and Settlements
- Chapter 7: Reinsurance: Finding the Balance between Reinsurers’ and Reinsureds’ interests
- Chapter 8: Closing Books of Business: The Challenge of Fairness and Finality
- Chapter 9: Choice of Law: New York and English Approaches to Insurance and Reinsurance Contracts
- Chapter 10: An Introduction to Insurance Regulation
- Chapter 11: History: A History of Insurance Regulation in the UK
- Chapter 12: International Organisations: Their Role and Interconnectivity in Insurance Regulation
- Chapter 13: Transnational Supervisory Recognition: A Macro-jurisdictional Overview
- Chapter 14: Principles-based Insurance Regulation: Lessons to be Learned from a Comparison of the EU and German Law of Risk Management
- Chapter 15: Conduct of Business Regulation: A Survey of the UK Regime and a Comparison with the US, German and Hong Kong Approach
- Chapter 16: Enforcement: A Survey of Three Approaches to Insurance Regulatory Enforcement: The USA, the UK and Sweden
- Chapter 17: Lloyd’s: Its Authorisation in the United Kingdom and Overseas
- Chapter 18: Lloyd’s: The Development of Performance Management
- Chapter 19: Microinsurance: The Value Proposition at the Base of the Pyramid
- Chapter 20: Takaful Insurance: Squaring the Insurance Circle in Islamic Law
- Chapter 21: Alternative Risk Transfer: Risk Transfer Solutions at the Margins of Insurability – The Legal and Regulatory Challenges
- Chapter 22: E-Commerce: The Regulation of Insurance in the Age of the Internet
- Chapter 23: Europe: Towards a Harmonised European Insurance Contract Law – The PEICL
- Chapter 24: Europe: The Architecture and Content of EU Insurance Regulation
- Chapter 25: USA: A Regulatory Overview of the World’s Largest Insurance Market
- Chapter 26: Singapore: Maintaining a Law and Regulation for a Modern Trading State
- Chapter 27: Brazil: The Transition of Law and Regulation from State Control to Market Freedom
- Chapter 28: China: Developments in Insurance Law and Regulation in the People’s Republic
- Chapter 29: Japan: The Insurance Concept in the Insurance Act and the Insurance Business Act
- Chapter 30: South Africa: Insurance Law and Regulation in the Rainbow Nation
- Index