LAWS341-10S2 (C) Semester Two 2010

Insurance Law

11 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 12 July 2010
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 25 July 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 10 October 2010

Description

The main principles of insurance law with specific reference to life and property insurance.

This course will examine a number of issues in insurance law which may include:
•  the nature and function of insurance,
•  the special nature of insurance contracts and the duty of utmost good faith,
•  formation issues in insurance contracts,
•  the need for an insurable interest,
•  insurance industry regulation,
•  the role of the insurance ombudsman,
•  insurance intermediaries, and
•  the effect of fraud in making a claim.

Learning Outcomes

  • The objectives of the Insurance Law course are to enable you to:
  •  Explain the meaning and significance of selected principles of insurance law.
  •  Apply those principles to varied practical problems.
  •  Consider critically issues of principle and policy raised by the present law and its operation in practice and consequently whether reform is desirable.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

LAWS327 before 2005

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Robyn Merrett

Lecturer

Cynthia Hawes

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 15 Oct 2010 20%
Final Examination 80%


Course assessment consists of two compulsory components: a research assignment (20%) and a final examination (80%).

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Cooke, Robin, Sir et al; The Laws of New Zealand ; Butterworths, 1993 (This is also available on-line via LexisNexis).

Hawes, Cynthia; Butterworth's introduction to commercial law ; LexisNexis, 2007 (This is also available on-line via LexisNexis).

Sutton, Kenneth Coleridge Turvey; Insurance law in Australia ; 3rd ed; LBC Information Services, 1999.

Tarr, A. A. , Kennedy, Julie-Anne; Insurance law in New Zealand ; 2nd ed.; Law Book Co, 1992.

Webb, Duncan , Rowe, David, University of Canterbury; Insurance law : practice, policy & principles ; Centre for Commercial & Corporate Law, 2004.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $435.00

International fee $2,017.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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