Understanding Insurance Law

Understanding Insurance Law

This comprehensive Understanding treatise can be used as the course text or as a supplement to any insurance law casebook. <b> Insurance Law</b> is designed to make the substance of insurance law accessible to the student and to the general practitioner unfamiliar with the subject.<p>The premise of this book's organization is that insurance law is best understood if its legal principles are arranged according to the various stages in the life of a contract. Part A considers the question "what is insurance law." Part B considers issues germane to the establishment of the contractual relationship between insurer and insured. Part C considers issues relevant to the performance of contractual obligations. Finally, Part D examines a few topics that defy easy categorization, including special problems in group insurance, special issues in automobile insurance, issues in reinsurance, and a new chapter on excess and umbrella coverage.