Research Handbook on International Insurance Law and Regulation

Edited by Julian Burling and Kevin Lazarus

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Law - Professional (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 9781849807883
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 An Introduction to Insurance Contract Law

Malcolm Clarke

Ch 2 Methodology: Applying Economics to Insurance Law – An Introduction

Lloyd R. Cohen and Michelle E. Boardman

Ch 3 Definition: Different Common Law and Civil Law Approaches to the Definition of Insurance

Kyriaki Noussia

Ch 4 Pre-contractual Information Duties: The Insured’s Pre-Contractual Duty of Disclosure – Convergence Across the Jurisdictional Divide

John Lowry

Ch 5 Contract Terms: Judicial Approaches to the Interpretation of Insurance Contracts

Oliver Brand

Ch 6 Claims: An Overview of the US Tort of ‘Bad Faith’ – A Common Law Approach to Regulating Insurer Claims Handling and Settlements

Suzanne Midlige, Robert Re and William Hoffman

Ch 7 Reinsurance: Finding the Balance between Reinsurers’ and Reinsureds’ interests

Rob Merkin and Michael Mendelowitz

Ch 8 Closing Books of Business: The Challenge of Fairness and Finality

David Whear and Bob Haken

Ch 9 Choice of Law: New York and English Approaches to Insurance and Reinsurance Contracts

Raymond Cox

Ch 10 An Introduction to Insurance Regulation

Peter Kochenburger and Patrick Salve

Ch 11 History: A History of Insurance Regulation in the UK

Robin Ford

Ch 12 International Organisations: Their Role and Interconnectivity in Insurance Regulation

Louise Steinberg

Ch 13 Transnational Supervisory Recognition: A Macro-jurisdictional Overview

Hermann Geiger

Ch 14 Principles-based Insurance Regulation: Lessons to be Learned from a Comparison of the EU and German Law of Risk Management

Petra Pohlmann

Ch 15 Conduct of Business Regulation: A Survey of the UK Regime and a Comparison with the US, German and Hong Kong Approach

James Smethurst, Wessel Heukamp, Jonathan Goodliffe and Royce Miller

Ch 16 Enforcement: A Survey of Three Approaches to Insurance Regulatory Enforcement: The USA, the UK and Sweden

Aviva Abramovsky, Ian Mason, Robert Tischner and Stefan Bessman

Ch 17 Lloyd’s: Its Authorisation in the United Kingdom and Overseas

Julian Burling

Ch 18 Lloyd’s: The Development of Performance Management

Kevin Lazarus

Ch 19 Microinsurance: The Value Proposition at the Base of the Pyramid

Arup Chatterjee

Ch 20 Takaful Insurance: Squaring the Insurance Circle in Islamic Law

Mark Hoyle

Ch 21 Alternative Risk Transfer: Risk Transfer Solutions at the Margins of Insurability – The Legal and Regulatory Challenges

Patrick Salve and Douglas Simpson

Ch 22 E-Commerce: The Regulation of Insurance in the Age of the Internet

Anne Flanagan

Ch 23 Europe: Towards a Harmonised European Insurance Contract Law – The PEICL

Helmut Heiss, Malcolm Clarke and Mandeep Lakhan

Ch 24 Europe: The Architecture and Content of EU Insurance Regulation

Robert Purves

Ch 25 USA: A Regulatory Overview of the World’s Largest Insurance Market

John Mulhern, Parimah Hassouri and Daren Moreira

Ch 26 Singapore: Maintaining a Law and Regulation for a Modern Trading State

Hwee-Ying Yeo

Ch 27 Brazil: The Transition of Law and Regulation from State Control to Market Freedom

Ilan Goldberg

Ch 28 China: Developments in Insurance Law and Regulation in the People’s Republic

Wenhao Han

Ch 29 Japan: The Insurance Concept in the Insurance Act and the Insurance Business Act

Seiichi Ochiai, Shinichi Takahashi and Ryoko Takeda

Ch 30 South Africa: Insurance Law and Regulation in the Rainbow Nation

Birgit Kuschke

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