Good Faith and Insurance Contracts

Good Faith and Insurance Contracts sets out an exhaustive analysis of the law concerning the duty of utmost good faith, as applied to insurance contracts. Now in its fourth edition, it has been updated to address the arrival of the Insurance Act 2015, as well as any references to new case law. In addition, it synthesises all known judicial decisions by the English Courts concerning good faith in this area.

This book is still the only text devoted to a discussion of the duty of utmost good faith applicable to insurance contracts. As good faith is an issue which arises in respect of all insurance contracts, it is a book which will be extremely useful to lawyers involved in insurance as well as insurance practitioners.

1. The insurance contract uberrimae fidei
3. Other contracts of the utmost good faith
5. The nature of the duty of the utmost good faith
7. The source of the duty of utmost good faith
9. Law reform
11. Legislation affecting the duty of good faith
13. The assured's duty of the fair presentation of the risk at placing
15. The exceptions to the duty of disclosure at placing
17. Modification of the duty of disclosure at placing
19. The post-contractual duty of good faith
21. The assured's duty of utmost good faith and claims
23. The insurer's duty
25. Third parties
27. Materiality and inducement
29. Examples of material facts
31. Remedies
33. The loss of the insurer's right to exercise a remedy or to rely upon a breach of warranty
35. Evidence: Proving a breach of duty or a defence