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This comprehensive Understanding treatise can be used as the primary course text or as a supplement to any insurance law casebook. Understanding Insurance Law is designed to make the substance of insurance law accessible to students and general practitioners who are unfamiliar with the subject. For nearly forty years, the previous editions have been widely quoted and cited as authoritative by both federal and state courts.
The book organizes insurance law under four major headings. Part A, which considers the question, "What is insurance law?," examines the nature of insurance policies, the industry that sells them, and how legislatures, courts, and agencies regulate them. Part B examines the law relevant to the establishment of the contractual relationship between insurer and insured and the scope of the obligations created. Part C considers issues relevant to the performance of the various duties and obligations in insurance contracts, including issues related to claim presentation in all lines of coverage plus the special obligations and issues that arise in liability insurance. Finally, Part D collects and examines some remaining topics of importance, including group insurance, special issues in automobile insurance, reinsurance, and excess and umbrella coverage.
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Introduction
PART A: WHAT IS INSURANCE LAW?
Chapter 1. What Is Insurance?
Chapter 2. Sources of Insurance Law
PART B: ESTABLISHING THE CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP
Chapter 3. Contract Formation
Chapter 4. The Insurable Interest Requirement
Chapter 5. Scope of Obligations: Persons and Interests Protected
Chapter 6. Scope of Obligations: The Risks Covered
PART C: PERFORMING THE CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
Chapter 7. The Insured’s Duty to Pay Premiums
Chapter 8. The Mechanics of Claim Presentation
Chapter 9. The Insurer’s Duty to Pay Proceeds
Chapter 10. Excuses for the Insurer’s Nonperformance
Chapter 11. The Additional Duties in Third-Party Insurance
PART D: SOME REMAINING MATTERS
Chapter 12. Group Insurance
Chapter 13. Automobile Insurance
Chapter 14. Excess Insurance
Chapter 15. Reinsurance
Table of Cases
Index