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- Provides comprehensive coverage of all the insurance issues encountered in the process of construction
- Proposes practical solutions to the problems encountered in negotiating construction contracts, insurance policies, and insurance claims
- Offers detailed guidance on the types of policies likely to be encountered
- Explains the requirements of industry standard form contracts, such as the JCT 2005, NECB, ICE
- Contains a clear exposition of the principles of insurance law
- Written by a team of experienced practitioners at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, led by Robert Hogarth
Insurance Law for the Construction Industry
provides comprehensive coverage of the issues involving insurance encountered in the process of construction. It gives practical answers to all the problems likely to be encountered when negotiating construction contracts, insurance policies or insurance claims.
This book is divided into four clear sections for ease of reference. It begins with a clear exposition of the principles of insurance law and then describes in detail the typical clauses found in insurance policies, the policies to be taken out by standard form construction contracts and how insurance is distributed and regulated. It draws together the many strands of insurance law providing an excellent point of reference for those working in this sector.
Questions of insurance arise in virtually all cases and as such this book will be of practical every day use to both the contentious and non-contentious lawyer. Written by an experienced team of practising solicitors from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, this work combines both an overview of the relevant insurance law with the specific detail specialists will require.
Readership: The primary readership will be contentious and non-contentious construction practitoners. It will also appeal to contract managers negotiating construction contracts and provide a reference tool to brokers and insurers dealing with the interface of insurance and the construction industry.
1: Introduction
1. Overview of Insurance Contracts: General Insurance Principles
1.1: Diane Donnelly and Robert Hogarth: Placing a Policy
1.2: Warranties and Conditions
1.3: Claims
1.4: Subrogation
2. Specific Policies
2.1: How Policies Are Structured
2.2: Catherine Percy and Robert Hogarth: Contractors' All Risks and Project Policies
2.3: Robert Hogarth: Inherent Defects Insurance
2.4: Alexandra Anderson: Consultants' Professional Indemnity
2.5: Richard Moody: Design and Build Professional Indemnity
2.6: Stuart White: Product Liability
2.7: Mark Kendall: Product Recall
2.8: Gavin Reese and James Miller: Employers' Liability
2.9: Project Policies
2.10: Edward Smerdon: D and O Insurance
2.11: Rupert Boswall: Captive Insurance
3. Standard form Building Contracts, Sub-constracts and Professional AppointmentsMichael Blackburne and Stephen Malley:
3.1: Review of Provisions in Standard Contracts
3.2: Breach of Responsibility to Insure
3.3: Building Contracts
3.4: Insurance Requirements
3.5: Sub-contracts
3.6: Professional Appointments
4. Regulatory, Contractual and Other Obligations Affecting Insurance
4.1: Charles Suchett-Kaye: Contractual and Statutory Obligations - VAT
4.2: Gavin Reese: Third Party (Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930
4.3: Kenneth Underhill: Insurance Distribution and Regulation
4.4: Richard Moody: Collateral Warranties
4.5: Alexandra Anderson: Professional Liabilities in Tort and Statute
4.6: Stuart White: Future Changes - Law Commission Reports
Edited by Robert Hogarth, Partner, Construction and Engineering Group, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
Contributors:
Alexandra Anderson
Michael Blackburne
Rupert Boswall
Diane Donnelly
Mark Kendall
Stephen Malley
James Miller
Richard Moody
Catherine Percy
Gavin Reese
Charles Suchett-Kaye
Edward Smerdon
Kenneth Underhill
Stuart White
"I highly recommend this book to all readers. It is a book for all those professionals who deal with construction insurance and particularly those in common law jurisdictions. For them, I suspect it will be a book from which they will develop a prepared mind." - Nael G Bunni of Bunni & Associates Dublin, Construction Law International, 2009
