Research and Markets: Reinsurance Practice and the Law 2010 is a Comprehensive Guide Offering You Sound Advice and Explanation in Every Area of Reinsurance
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Reinsurance Practice and the Law
Designed to reduce to a minimum the legal difficulties involved in a reinsurance transaction, Reinsurance Practice and the Law covers all the areas of reinsurance law that are likely to give rise to problems. This looseleaf pays special attention to the drafting and operation of the reinsurance contract. It also deals in detail with dispute resolution, including arbitration and Commercial Court practice and procedure.
Reinsurance Practice and the Law is your best assurance of always being up to date with the latest developments. The regular updates you receive as part of your subscription means that unlike an ordinary textbook, the content of this publication will change in line with the law - providing you with a definitive and dependable source of information.
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Reinsurance Practice and the Law will provide you with:
- A comprehensive, all-you-need reference source
- A clear explanation of the basics of reinsurance contracts, including the relationships between the parties and the various types of contracts, with particular mention of alternative risk
- The principles of drafting and interpretation of contracts, including reaching agreement, contract wordings and choice of law
- The details of operating a contract, including claims handling, offset and funding, inspection of records and transfer and termination
- Guidance on dispute resolution, including choice of law, jurisdiction, alternative dispute resolution, arbitration procedure and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitration awards
- Regular updates to ensure you are always fully up to date
- Online access to the text to make your legal research quicker and easier then ever before
Who reads Reinsurance Practice and the Law?
Legal Professionals
Reinsurance Practice and the Law offers a comprehensive examination of the key issues affecting your clients. This looseleaf covers the most up-to-date cases and legal issues ensuring you can advise within the reinsurance market with full knowledge and confidence.
Insurance and Reinsurance Professionals
This looseleaf will provide you with a truly practical perspective of reinsurance law as it applies in your day-to-day work. It will give you through the pitfalls of forming and negotiating reinsurance agreements, highlighting problem areas in wordings. It also tackles areas as diverse as dispute resolution and the liabilities of intermediaries.
"Reinsurance Practice and the Law is the most detailed and yet concise treatment of reinsurance law in common law jurisdictions on the market today. Its comprehensiveness is exceeded only by its clarity."
"A thoughtful, well-produced and intelligently structured piece of work...written from the perspective of the market place, and herein also lies its huge merit."
Key Topics Covered:
- PART 1 - REINSURANCE CONTRACTS, MARKETS AND PARTICIPANTS
- Introduction to and overview of reinsurance
- The participants and common reinsurance arrangements
- Global reinsurance markets
- Types of reinsurance contracts
- Types of reinsurer, authorisation and regulation
- Underwriting agents
- The reinsurance broker
- PART 2 - MAKING THE REINSURANCE CONTRACT
- Essential ingredients of a reinsurance contract
- Joint and composite policies and reinsurance for common account
- Utmost good faith at placement: disclosure and representations
- Making the contract: placement
- Recording the contract: the slip and the wording
- Broker's cover notes
- Contract certainty
- PART 3 - INTERPRETING THE REINSURANCE CONTRACT
- General rules of interpretation of terms
- Incorporation of terms
- Types and classification of terms
- Common terms that delimit the scope of cover and other miscellaneous clauses
- Duties between placement and the making of claims
- Choice of law
- PART 4 - PREMIUM, BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION
- Premium
- Brokerage and commissions
- PART 5 - LLOYD'S
- Lloyd's
- PART 6 - REINSURANCE ALTERNATIVES
- Alternative Risk Transfer
Authors:
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP has a long history as a leading insurance and reinsurance firm, having been closely involved with the insurance and reinsurance markets for more than 125 years. It's award-winning reinsurance practice comprises the largest and most widely experienced group of reinsurance lawyers in
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