INSURANCE LAW
Insurance law is the practice of law surrounding insurance, including insurance policies and claims. It can be broadly broken into three categories - regulation of the business of insurance; regulation of the content of insurance policies, especially with regard to consumer policies; and regulation of claim handling.
Publications:
Insurance Market Integration
Insurance Market Integration
A comparative study of the institutional structure and grants of authority that facilitate legal developments which result in insurance market integration that accommodates state insurance market interests. - European Community and United States of Americ
J.M.F. Spierings
Pages: 190 pages
Shipping Weight: 410 gram
Published: 07-2006
Publisher: WLP
Language: US
ISBN (softcover) : 9789058501615
Product Description
The purpose of this study is to determine what elements of the institutional structure and grants of authority facilitate law either regulations or case law, which results in insurance market integration that takes the interests on the insurance markets into consideration.
The institutional structure and grants of authority of the United States of America (USA) and of the European Community (EC) are being compared. The objective of the cooperation in the EC and the USA was similar, the economic integration of the states’ markets by eliminating the intentional barriers and minimizing the obstacles to free and fair interstate trade. However, the means, the institutional structure and the grants of authority to accomplish this objective differ, as does the resulting legal development of market integration.Where in this study the EC and the USA and their markets are used as examples, the same question and the answers are of interest for any transboundary market within a federal context or a transnational authority context.
Aircrash Aftermath: a true story
Hove, C. ten
Pages: 300 pages
Shipping Weight: 550 gram
Published: 07-2005
Publisher: WLP
Language: US
ISBN (softcover) : 9789058501660
Product Description
This book contains the story of one of the survivors of the plane crash in Faro in 1992. It’s also a report on the failure of systems and institutions that are intended to assist persons in need of support after such a disaster.
Finally it is a testimony to the resilience and ingenuity of the individual, the survivor as well as his family and friends and committed professionals.December 21, 1992: A disaster struck Faro, Portugal. A Dutch Martinair DC-10 crashed at the airport leaving many passengers dead or wounded. Cor ten Hove, the author of this book, was a passenger on that plane. He survived, but his life would never be the same. In this book he describes the plane crash and the impact it has had on his life ever since. He has had to deal with, and is still dealing with problems relating to health care, insurance, legal cases, financial concerns, employment, interactions with government bureaucracies, and much more.
The surveys included in this book, conducted among survivors and relatives of the victims of the Faro air disaster, show that this is not the story of one man. It’s not even the story of only Faro air disaster survivors. Unfortunately it’s the story of many individuals who have found the path to recovery littered with unanticipated obstacles. Modern society, its institutions and legal systems are poorly prepared to deal with complicated situations that persist in the long term. If a situation is too complex and lasts too long, the institutions in question increasingly seem to insist that the individual just needs to get over it and move on.The imperative is to face what this story says about the limited ability of societal systems to meet their obligations to the individuals who constitute society. The first step towards achieving this is to develop greater social awareness of the effects of disasters, so that inter-related effects are not treated as unrelated problems.