Insurance Law Module on LexisNexis® Quicklaw®

 
Get the resources you need to protect the rights and assert the interests of your clients in the areas of insurance law and personal injury litigation.

Designed for insurance law practitioners, in-house counsel, and insurance companies and professionals, the Insurance Law Module* on LexisNexis Quicklaw gives you all the resources you need to:
  • Gain insight into the current state of insurance law.
  • Interpret insurance contracts.
  • Understand the good faith obligations of the parties to an insurance contract.
  • Understand the obligations of the parties when dealing with subrogation rights.
  • Advise your clients as to preventative action.
  • Maximize recovery for your client.
  • Examine available remedies, such as compensatory, aggravated and punitive damages, and viable defences, such as industry conformity, contributory negligence, advice of counsel and failure to mitigate.
  • Determine which U.S. cases might be used to fill gaps in the Canadian jurisprudence in liability insurance law, as well as take notice of American principles that may not apply.

* Requires a Quicklaw account and a separate subscription.
Expansive secondary materials selected specifically for insurance professionals
  • Exclusive leading Butterworths® insurance law treatises authored by leading practitioners in the field of insurance law, including:
    • General Principles of Canadian Insurance Law (Billingsley)
    • Insurance Bad Faith (Hilliker)
    • Insurance Companies Act, Legislation & Commentary (Rubenstein and Gormley)**
    • Liability Insurance Law in Canada (Hilliker)
    • Ontario Motor Vehicle Insurance Practice Manual (Linden and Firestone)
    • Ontario Insurance Law and Commentary (Firestone)

  • Butterworths benchmark reference treatises of general practice vital to practising insurance law:
    • Canadian Contract Law (Swan)
    • Sopinka, Lederman & Bryant – The Law of Evidence in Canada (Bryant, Lederman and Fuerst)
    • Castel and Walker – Canadian Conflict of Laws (Walker)

  • The black-letter statement of the law with respect to insurance law and related areas:
    • Halsbury’s® Laws of Canada – Insurance
    • Halsbury’s® Laws of Canada – Contracts
    • Halsbury’s® Laws of Canada – Medicine and Health
    • Halsbury’s® Laws of Canada – Legal Profession

  • Case law digests covering all your clients’ questions and circumstances:
    • The best in NetLetter™ sources:
      • Carlson Personal Injury Quantum of Damages NetLetter™ — Covering every single personal injury case from a common law jurisdiction in Canada where a judicial determination was made with respect to non-pecuniary damages***
      • Harper Grey Insurance Law NetLetter™
      • LexisNexis® Insurance Law NetLetter™
    • Titles from The Canada Digest — Use the LexisNexis® classification system to find summaries for court and tribunal decisions for each of the main topical areas:
      • Canada Insurance Law Digest
      • Canada Contracts Digest
    • Exclusive cross-Canada coverage of quantum awards from common law decisions from across the country:
      • Canada Breach of Contract Quantums
      • Canada Medical Negligence Quantums
      • Canada Property-Related Torts Quantums

    ** Coming in June 2011.
    *** Some restrictions may apply. Specifically excluded is the handful of cases where the nature of injuries is unclear on the face of the decision.

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