Informed Insurance Choice?: The Insurer’s Pre-Contractual Information Duties in General Consumer Insurance - Hardcover

Loacker, Leander D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784717517 ISBN 13: 9781784717513

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Enabling informed choices with regards to mass risk insurance is an aim pursued for decades now at both the national and European level. This book explores the extent to which the imposing of disclosure duties on the insurer may actually contribute to this end and where it inevitably reaches limits.

Convinced that information problems cannot be solved by exclusively focusing on their legal dimension, the author provides the reader with a helpful overview of economic and behavior-orientated insights to the book's subject. Proceeding from these, the existing legal frameworks in the UK and Germany are critically analyzed and compared to more recent academic proposals for a future European insurance contract law. All of this is continuously supplemented by specific proposals for improvement.

This inspiring book will be of use to scholars dealing with financial law and general questions of information policy. Insurance companies and lawyers dealing with cases first-hand will also find this to be a resourceful read.

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About the Author

Leander D. Loacker, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784717517
• ISBN 13: 9781784717513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360