A handbook for those who handle claims, particularly loss adjusters, providing an up-to-date outline of the law of insurance, with particular reference to fire insurance.

Author(s): Walmsley, R. M.
Published: 1997
Binding: Hardback
ISBN 10: 1898195072 ISBN 13: 9781898195078

Contents

Preface

1      Legal System and Procedure

2      Contract; the Insurance Contract

3      Arranging the Insurance

4      Interpretation and Construction of Contracts

5      Insurable Interest; Subject Matter of the Contract

6      Insurable Interest; Continued

7      Property Insured; Subject Matter of the Insurance

8      The Principle of Proximate Cause

9      Proximate Cause; Special and Additional Perils

10   Indemnity; Law

11   Indemnity Practice; Buildings and Machinery

12   Indemnity Practice; Stock and Work in Progress

13   Indemnity Practice; Additional Clauses

14   Indemnity Practice; Extension Clauses

15   The Principle of Subrogation

16   The Principle of Contribution — (A) Common Law

                                                                   (B) Trade Agreements

17   The Claim

18   Domestic Insurance; an Overview

Appendices

List of Cases

List of Statutes, Regulations and Statutory Instruments

Index