Add to ORKGOver recent decades, the significance of third parties in the insurance contractual relationship has progressively increased. In Australia, challenges by claimants with entitlements under group life insurance policies providing total and permanent disablement (TPD) benefits, which are commonly arranged by trustees of superannuation funds to provide benefits to incapacitated members, have been a key driver of this trend. Several cases where third party claimants have successfully challenged the decision-making processes of insurers in declining TPD claims have provided useful clarifications of the nature, extent and limits of Australian insurers' post-contractual duties of utmost good faith. Through a progressive review of the key Australian...
California courts have generally encouraged insurers to deal fairly with their customers. If the ins...
Each year in America, an estimated $200 billion is spent purchasing third-party liability insurance....
One of the little discussed — but defining — features of utmost good faith inEnglish insurance law w...
An insurer's bad faith rejection or denial of a valid claim can cause significant economic hardship ...
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry ...
On 1 January 1986 a new era dawned for the development of insurance law in Australia, for on that da...
Insurance fraud in the UK and Australia has very significant financial impact upon insurers, their p...
A brief commentary on measures in the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Bill 2011 ...
The Marine Insurance Act provides that both parties to the contract owe each other a duty of utmost ...
England and Scotland are currently involved in an ambitious and ongoing process of reform of insuran...
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry ...
This article examines the implications of the differing remedies provided by tort and contract law. ...
Courts have increasingly held an insured liable under principles of agency for the conduct of the in...
In July 2007 the English and Scottish Law Commissions published the consultation paper Insurance Law...
This thesis explores the application of the duty of utmost good faith to current London commercial i...
California courts have generally encouraged insurers to deal fairly with their customers. If the ins...
Each year in America, an estimated $200 billion is spent purchasing third-party liability insurance....
One of the little discussed — but defining — features of utmost good faith inEnglish insurance law w...
An insurer's bad faith rejection or denial of a valid claim can cause significant economic hardship ...
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry ...
On 1 January 1986 a new era dawned for the development of insurance law in Australia, for on that da...
Insurance fraud in the UK and Australia has very significant financial impact upon insurers, their p...
A brief commentary on measures in the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Bill 2011 ...
The Marine Insurance Act provides that both parties to the contract owe each other a duty of utmost ...
England and Scotland are currently involved in an ambitious and ongoing process of reform of insuran...
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry ...
This article examines the implications of the differing remedies provided by tort and contract law. ...
Courts have increasingly held an insured liable under principles of agency for the conduct of the in...
In July 2007 the English and Scottish Law Commissions published the consultation paper Insurance Law...
This thesis explores the application of the duty of utmost good faith to current London commercial i...
California courts have generally encouraged insurers to deal fairly with their customers. If the ins...
Each year in America, an estimated $200 billion is spent purchasing third-party liability insurance....
One of the little discussed — but defining — features of utmost good faith inEnglish insurance law w...