This authoritative book provides detailed and lucid treatment of all aspects of the law which applies to liability insurance contracts, and gives fresh insight and analysis on all major types of liability insurance cover, including: public liability insurance, contractors liability insurance, product liability insurance, professional indemnity insurance, directors' & officers' liability insurance, employers liability insurance and motor liability insurance.
Usefully organised in two parts, this book provides everything that a busy practitioner needs to hand in one core volume.
Part one explains the general principles which are common to all forms of liability insurance (for example, the formation of liability insurance contracts; premium; the identification of the insured; the interpretation of liability insurance contracts; the scope and operation of indemnity; causation; fortuity).
Part two focuses on specific issues which commonly arise in respect of each particular type of liability insurance cover (e.g. particular requirements for "loss" or "damage" or "injury", or common exclusion clauses).
This book is an invaluable guide for barristers and solicitors involved in all commercial liability issues, whether in private practice or working as in-house counsel. Insurance underwriters, claims handlers and risk managers as well as academics and students in this area of law will also find this book extremely useful.
Part A: General Principles
Chapter
1. Introduction to the Law of
Liability Insurance
Chapter
2. Formation of Liability Insurance Contracts
Chapter
3. Premium
Chapter
4. The Insured
Chapter
5. The Interpretation of
Liability Insurance Contracts
Chapter
6. The Scope and Operation of
Indemnity: The Insuring Clause
Chapter
7. The Scope and Operation of
Indemnity: The Period of the Insurance
Chapter
8. The Scope and Operation of
Indemnity: Insured Activities / Business
Chapter
9. The Scope and Operation
of Indemnity: Geographical Scope
Chapter
10. The Scope and Operation of
Indemnity: Insured Perils
Chapter
11. The Scope and Operation of Indemnity:
Extension Clauses
Chapter
12. The Scope and Operation of Indemnity: Exclusion
Clauses
Chapter
13. The Scope and Operation of Indemnity: Limits of Cover
Chapter
14. Causation
Chapter
15. Fortuity
Chapter
16. Claims
Chapter
17. The
Burden of Proof
Chapter
18. Measure of Indemnity
Chapter
19. Mitigation / Sue
& Labour
Chapter
20. Misrepresentation & Non-Disclosure
Chapter
21.
Consequences of Breach of the Insurance Contract
Chapter
22. Enforceability:
Insurable Interest, Illegality & Public Policy
Chapter
23. The Rights of
Third Parties
Chapter
24. Subrogation
Chapter
25. Double Insurance &
Contribution
Chapter
26. Limitation
Chapter
27. Brokers
Chapter
28. Conflict
of Laws Part B: Particular Types of Liability Insurance
Chapter
29. Public
Liability Insurance
Chapter
30. Contractors' Liability Insurance
31. Product
Liability Insurance
Chapter
32. Professional Indemnity Insurance
Chapter
33.
Directors & Officers Liability Insurance
Chapter
34. Employers' Liability
Insurance
Chapter
35. Motor Liability Insurance
Chapter
36. Marine Liability
Insurance
Chapter
37. Aviation Liability Cover
Simon Kerr is a barrister specialising in commercial law at 7KBW, with particular expertise in the areas of insurance and reinsurance, shipping and conflict of laws.
Peter MacDonald Eggers QC is a silk at 7KBW, where he specialises in all aspects of commercial law, with a particular focus on insurance and reinsurance, shipping and transport, energy, commodities and international trade, financial services, professional negligence, and international investment projects.
