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详细
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
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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
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"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
