Brief Description
The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law held a symposium in July 2008 at Lloyd's of London on the Law Commissions' Reform Proposals on Marine and Commercial Insurance. Reforming Marine and Commercial Insurance Law is based on thought provoking discussions at the symposium. The book provides a comprehensive, coherent, and practical legal analysis of the work currently undertaken by the English and Scottish Law Commissions with a view to reforming the current legal regime. Written by a team of experts from the legal profession, insurance market, and academia, the book offers a critical discussion on the legal and practical implications of planned law reform in this area. Table of contents include: Reforming Pre-contractual Information Duties of the Assured: A Case against the Reform Reforming Pre-contractual Information Duties of the Assured: A Case for the Reform Reforming Pre-contractual Information Duties of the Intermediaries of the Assured Reforming Pre-contractu
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With reform of warranties, utmost good faith and insurable interest underway, Reforming Marine and Commercial Insurance Law provides a timely and essential analysis of this changing area of marine insurance law. The entire insurance sector is observing and participating in the reform process and this wide interest is reflected in the diversity of extremely high quality contributions to this book. This book evaluates the legal and practical implications of the proposals on commercial and marine insurance contracts. The contributors, from legal practice, the insurance sector, the judiciary and academia, comment critically on the proposals and discuss the viability and future of the reform process.
