Research Handbook on International Insurance Law and Regulation

'Global insurance and its rapidly evolving law and regulation demands international research. To this aim, the Handbook offers a truly international collection of essays. Highly renowned experts analyze the key topics currently under international discussion and development. While representing a diversity of national jurisdictions, the focus lies on the largest insurance jurisdictions (USA, UK and Germany) but newly important jurisdictions like Brazil and China are considered as well – a most valuable and important contribution to international insurance law literature.’
– Manfred Wandt, Director of the Insurance Law Institute, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

‘This Research Handbook is published at an opportune time. A global review of insurance law and regulation is underway. Much reform happens locally with little reference to developments elsewhere and this Research Handbook brings the strands together. It is a comprehensive review by distinguished authors from different backgrounds including both leading academics and practitioners. They consider the definitions of insurance, its economic underpinnings, comparative law and regulations, actual and proposed reforms, the effects on underwriting and claims and how insurance is studied and taught. Good laws and regulation benefit the market and its customers. Bad laws and regulation do the opposite. This book is required reading for all involved in the reform process.’
– David Hertzell, Law Commissioner

‘Globalisation has had no greater impact in the commercial world than on insurance, the law which governs it and the risks it seeks to address.
Those who inspired this publication and the contributing authors, are to be thanked for providing such a necessary and useful reference source.
It covers so much of what insurance professionals need to be aware of in the insurance/law world of the twenty first century.’
– Michael Gill, President of the International Insurance Law Association