Informa Professional

Reforming Marine and Commercial Insurance Law provides a comprehensive, coherent and practical legal analysis of the work currently undertaken by the English and Scottish Law Commissions with a view to reforming the current legal regime.

Written by a team of experts from the legal profession, insurance market and academia, this book offers a critical discussion on the legal and practical implications of planned law reform in this area.

Chapter 1
Insurance Contract Law Reform in England (and Wales) and Scotland
David Hertzell (Law Commissioner)

Chapter 2
Pre-contractual Information Duties and the Law Commissions' Review
Martin Bakes (Partner, Herbert Smith LLP)

Chapter 3
Materiality: The Search for Practicality
Alan Weir (Partner, Ince & Co)

Chapter 4
Reforming Pre-contractual Information Duties of the Intermediaries of the Assured
Professor Rob Merkin (University of Southampton and Consultant Barlow Lyde and Gilbert LLP)

Chapter 5
Reforming Warranties
The Hon Mr Justice Aikens (High Court of Justice)

Chapter 6
Reforming Insurance Warranties: Are We Finally Moving Forwards?
Dr Baris Soyer (Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University)

Chapter 7
Reflections on Values
Professor Howard Bennett (Hind Professor of Commercial Law, University of Nottingham)

Chapter 8
Reforming Insurable Interest
Mr Mark Templeman QC (Barrister, Essex Court Chambers)

Chapter 9
Utmost Good Faith and the Presentation and Handling of Claims
Peter MacDonald Eggers (Barrister, 7 King’s Bench Walk)

Chapter 10
Law Commissions Reform Proposals on Marine and Commercial Insurance: A Practitioner's Perspective
Derrick Cole (Past BILA Chairman and Broker)