Insurance Law

Professional Indemnity Insurance Law, 2nd Edition

Edited by Ian Enright · Dr Digby Jess
Sweet & Maxwell U.K. December 2007

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780421966604
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication
December 2007
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Commonwealth, U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Written with a commanding approach, and acclaimed for its thorough, high quality analysis, Professional Indemnity Insurance Law:

  • Provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of professional indemnity insurance law from the perspectives of both the insurer and the professional
  • Analyses the relevant areas of law, from the nature and extent of the legal relationship between a professional and client, through to a detailed discussion of insuring clauses to be found in modern professional indemnity policies
  • Helps you find solutions to the various problems you might face in this complicated area of law, whether you are acting for the insured professional or the insurer
  • Outlines key principles for professional conduct, insurance and indemnity law, and professional indemnity insurance
  • Examines making the contract, preliminary clauses and clauses on risk
  • Deals with making a claim and defences
  • Discusses insolvency in the context of professional indemnity insurance

Table of Contents

Introduction and making the contract
  • Insurance, indemnity insurance and professional indemnity insurance
  • Utmost good faith, disclosure and representations
  • Formation, terms and form of the contract
  • Illegality
The professional indemnity policy - preliminary clauses
  • Construction and effect of policy terms
  • Parties and claimants, the insured and the insurer
  • Duration and cover of renewals
  • Limits on the amount of cover
Clauses on the risk
  • Professionals
  • Clauses on risk, advice and the elements of cover, activity, loss, contingency, cause of action, remedy and liability
  • Clauses on risk - representing the client, the professional as agent
  • Clauses on risk - related services, property, goods and products
  • Clauses on risk - vicarious liability
Claims
  • Claims - steps on the application for indemnity
  • Claims and defences
  • Subrogation
  • Insolvency

Reviews

"Has all the hallmarks of something that will become a major text for this increasingly complex area. It is well written, lovingly cross-referenced and meticulously thorough." - Litigation

"The quality of the research undertaken by the author is exceptionally high and the result is a work of great authority.” - International Insurance Law Review

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