How to Create and Enforce Private Insurance Contracts

 

Discover the basic legal principles that apply to forming and enforcing private insurance contracts in all common law provinces.

 

General Principles of Canadian Insurance Law explains how these principles operate and how courts have used them in major cases. Written in an accessible style, this book is designed for insurance professionals both with and without technical legal training. Straightforward analysis and insight will help you to prepare cases effectively and argue a case in court.

 

Author Barbara Billingsley is a long-time educator and researcher in insurance law, constitutional law, and civil procedure. She is currently the Associate Dean (Research) and an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. In 2005, she was awarded the faculty’s Tevie H. Miller Teaching Excellence Award.

 

Answers to Fundamental Questions

 

General Principles of Canadian Insurance Law clarifies areas that create the most confusion and difficulty for insurance professionals. Professor Billingsley analyzes the most recent case law to answer these and other central questions:

• How do statutory classifications impact insurance contracts?
•  How do the courts interpret use and operation in an insurance contract?
• What are the good faith obligations of the parties to an insurance contract?
• What obligations do the parties to an insurance contract have to each other when dealing with subrogation rights?
• How are fundamental common law principles affected by insurance legislation?

PLUS, Glossary of Insurance Terms

• Standard definitions for over 130 insurance terms
• Case law interpretations of ambiguous terms, including accident, excess insurance, material fact, reasonable expectations, relief from forfeiture, subrogation, and utmost good faith   

An Invaluable Research Tool for:

• Insurance law practitioners across Canada who need an up-to-date treatise on general insurance law principles
• Insurance law students who need an introduction to and explanation of important insurance law concepts
• Insurance adjusters and claims examiners who need a readable, readily understandable summary of how basic insurance principles operate