Australian Insurance Law: A First Reference, 4th edition

A valuable resource for law and business students, insurance lawyers and those in the insurance industry

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Now in its fourth edition, Australian Insurance Law: A First Reference is a clear and concise treatment of general insurance law in Australia. It covers all the key concepts associated with general insurance law, including the unique insurance perspective on the duty of utmost good faith, conditions and warranties, causation, mitigation, subrogation and double insurance, and contribution. This text is a valuable resource for law and business students, as well as insurance lawyers and those in the wider insurance industry.

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• A concise discussion of the principles of general Australian insurance law
• Insightful commentary explaining the fundamentals with references to relevant statute and case law
• Includes digital learning materials

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Derrington & Ashton, The Law of Liability Insurance, 3rd edition, 2013
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Greg Pynt

Greg Pynt

Greg Pynt currently practises as a barrister and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Australia, where he has coordinated and lectured in insurance law in the Faculty of Law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1991. He won the Australian Insurance Law Association Insurance Prize in 2000 and is an AILA Honorary Life Member. Greg is also the General Editor of the Insurance Law Journal, published by LexisNexis.

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Table of contents

Part 1: Background

 
1. Insurance: A Risk Transfer, Loss-Spreading Arrangement

 
2. Dividing Insurance into Categories

 
3. A Short History of Insurance

 
4. Regulation of General Insurers

 
5. Insurance Intermediaries

 
6. Introduction to the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth)

 
Part 2: Period Leading up to and Including the Formation of an Insurance Contract

 
7. Utmost Good Faith

 
8. Pre-contractual Disclosure

 
9. Formation of an Insurance Contract

 
10. Insurable Interest

 
11. Duration of an Insurance Contract

 
12. The Layout of an Insurance Policy: Recitals, Insuring Clause, Exclusions, Policy Terms and Definitions<

 
13. Construing an Insurance Contract

 
14. The Nature of an Insurer’s Promise to Indemnify<

 
15. Causation

 
16. Mitigation

 
17. First Party Insurance

 
18. Liability (Third Party) Insurance

 
19. Some Common Policy Terms

 
Part 3: The Claim

 
20. Broken Promises

 
21. Election, Estoppel and Abuse of Process

 
22. Section 54

 
23. Fraudulent Claims

 
24. How Many Claims (Aggregation Clauses)?

 
25. Claiming the Benefit of Another Person’s Insurance Contract

 
26. Some Insurance-Related Civil Litigation Procedures

 
Part 4: Recovery of an Insurer’s Loss from Third Parties and Other Insurers

 
27. Subrogation

 
28. The Duties Owed by a Lawyer when Retained by an Insurer

 
29. Double Insurance and Contribution
 

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