Insurance Law Handbook Fourth Edition

Written by an expert team of authors from Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert LLP, Insurance Law Handbook, 4th edition, provides a general, and accessible guide to all aspects of insurance law. It considers most major business classes and reflects upon how the essential principles of insurance law relate to them. This excellent work combines a full range of information in one convenient time-saving source of reference.

Easy-to use chapter structure
This new edition has been restructured into an easy to follow, logical 6 part format:

Part 1. looks first at the legal principles relevant to the creation of insurance contracts
Part 2. considers the various parties who may be involved in the creation and operation of an insurance contract and how they go about their business and are regulated
Part 3. considers the legal principles applicable to the making of claims
Part 4. looks at the question of how insurance contract disputes can be resolved
Part 5. looks at the various types of insurance that are available in the market, from motor to space
Part 6. considers two separate regulatory topics, namely the regulation of sales of insurance products and insurance business transfers under the FSMA 2000

Essential new coverage
Completely revised to include more legal analysis and specialist risk subjects, the fourth edition also covers all legal and regulatory developments including:

The impact of the coming into force of the Gambling Act 2005 on the requirement of insurable interest
The cases of ERC Frankona Reinsurance v American National Insurance Co (2006) and North Star Shipping Ltd v Sphere Drake Insurance plc (2005) – which deal with the assured’s duty of utmost good faith disclosure
Bonner v Cox (2006) which deals with the reinsured’s duty of care in respect of his writing and ceding of business to his excess of loss reinsurers
The recently imposed industry-wide requirement of contract certainty
The new FSA regulatory regime to which brokers are subject