Cases and Materials on Marine Insurance Law

This book provides a comprehensive collection of Cases and Materials On Marine Insurance Law. The sources included here are not always readily accessible. Each chapter is introduced with a brief resume of the general principles,before the facts of each case are summarised and the extracts of the relevant parts of judgments reproduced.

The significance of the judicial extracts, the statutory materials and standard terms are then discussed with particular emphasis on important and problematical areas of the law.This book will be indispensable not only to postgraduate students of law, in-house lawyers, insurance brokers and claims adjusters, but also to students of maritime studies, legal practitioners and a wide range of professionals within the shipping industry who may wish to have at hand a convenient source of information.

Whilst the book is a companion to the authors The Law of Marine Insurance , it is also structured to stand as a marine insurance text in its own right.

Contract of Indemnity; Insurable Interest; Subject Matter Insured; Time and Voyage Policies; Valued and Unvalued Policies; Utmost Good Faith, Disclosure and Representations; Warranties; The Cause of Loss; Marine Risks; Excluded Losses; Burden and Standard of Proof; The Inchmaree Clause; The 3/4ths Collision Liability Clause; War and Strikes Risks; Actual Total Loss; Constructive Total Loss; Partial Loss.