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Postgraduate study in Laws:

Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate

Course outline

Insurance law (formerly known as Insurance (excluding Marine insurance))
Section A: Elements of insurance
· Definition: what is an insurance contract?
· Regulation of insurers
· Intermediaries: agents, brokers
Section B: Insurance contract formation
· Duty of disclosure and misrepresentation; remedies for breach
· Formation of the contract including: offer, acceptance, premiums
Section C: The insurance contract and its terms
· Insurable interest in property insurance and life assurance
· Terms of the contract
· Construing the terms of the contract
Section D: Claims process
· Causation: determining the cause of the loss; losses caused by the insured
· Claims: the claims process, the requirement of good faith
· Subrogation: the insurer's, the insured's and the other parties' rights
· Abandonment
· Double insurance and contribution between insurers
· Indemnity and reinstatement, mitigation of loss, reinstatement under contract and under statute
· Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms: the ombudsman
Sequence:
Section A first, Section D last.
Textbooks:
John Lowry and Philip Rawlings, Insurance Law: Doctrines and Principles 2nd ed (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005),

ISBN: 9781841135403

John Lowry and Philip Rawlings, Insurance Law: Cases and Materials (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004), ISBN: 9781841132747