Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Insurance

Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is commonly recognized as the greatest German prose writer of the twentieth century. It is less well known that he had an established legal career. Kafka's briefs reveal him to be a canny bureaucrat, sharp litigator, and innovative thinker on the social, political, and...

Construction Insurance and UK Construction Contracts has long been the premier text for legal professionals looking for a combined analysis of construction contracts and their relation to insurance law. In a new and updated third edition, this book continues to provide in-depth commentary and pragmatic advice on all the most important regulations and policies surrounding contracts and insurance in the construction industry.

This book covers subjects such as:

• Minor, intermediate and major project construction contracts
• Classes of...

This compact volume is a practical guide for anyone interested in Trade Credit Insurance. The International Credit Insurance & Surety Association (ICISA) presents an approachable but detailed guide written collaboratively by carefully selected industry experts. The guide describes the lifeline of the credit insurance product, from the initial application stage to the expiration phase of the policy, including practical use aspects for credit managers. The volume offers compact information on the history of trade, the need for protection against trade credit risks, and solutions offered by...

Approximately 40 per cent of value of international trade comes from goods carried by air, and the consequences of goods being damaged, destroyed or delayed can be serious, substantial, and perhaps unforeseen. This exciting new book is the only one on the market that deals exclusively with air cargo insurance, and will therefore, be a vital addition to the collection of any practitioner, professional or academic working in the field.

Air Cargo Insurance analyses the model policies and standard terms and conditions on the London markets. The authors also provide readers with an...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides valuable practical insight into both public supervisory legislation concerning insurance and private insurance contract law in Spain . An informative general introduction surveying the legal, political, financial, and commercial background and surroundings of insurance provides a sound foundation for the specific detail that follows. The book covers all essential aspects of the law and regulation governing insurance policies and instruments. Its detailed exposition includes examination of...

Das Insolvenzrecht gehort zu dem Kernbestand der Regelwerke, die das Vertrauen der Rechtsgenossen in eine Rechtsordnung sichern. Es regelt die Bedingungen allseitiger Haftung eines Schuldners und steckt damit zugleich den Rahmen ab, innerhalb dessen die Glaubiger erwarten konnen, dass ihre Rechte in einer und durch eine Reorganisation und Sanierung des schuldnerischen Unternehmens gewahrt werden.

Die faktische Wirkung des Insolvenzrechts endet nicht an nationalstaatlichen Grenzen. Das Insolvenzverfahren ist nach seinem Anspruch auf universelle Geltung angelegt. In fast allen...

The book covers all essential aspects of the law and regulation governing insurance policies and instruments. Its detailed exposition includes...

This straightforward book uses easy to understand language to educate the general public about estate planning. Often members of the public think that their estate needs are met simply by creating a will and holding assets jointly. What they do not realize is the many other tools available to them in the financial and legal fields, and advice sought in one field does not guarantee information flowing on tools used in the other. Uniquely, this book arms the general public with the knowledge to make intelligent choices among the many tools in both fields. Appendices provide an extensive...

This straightforward book uses easy to understand language to educate the general public about estate planning. Often members of the public think that their estate needs are met simply by creating a will and holding assets jointly. What they do not realize is the many other tools available to them in the financial and legal fields, and advice sought in one field does not guarantee information flowing on tools used in the other. Uniquely, this book arms the general public with the knowledge to make intelligent choices among the many tools in both fields. Appendices provide an extensive...

Legal reserve life insurance in the United States and Canada as a modern instrument for meeting the quest for economic security, has attained size and significance unparalleled elsewhere in the world. It holds in a fiduciary capacity more than $60 billion and affects the lives of half the population as owners of life insurance and annuity contracts. Still in process of evolution, it helps to shape the pattern of life and is at the same time being shaped by its own environment.

This third volume of lectures issued under the auspices of the S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance...

Der "Bruck/Moller" hat als der traditionelle Grokommentar zum Versicherungsvertragsrecht ein herausragendes Renommee. Sein hohes Ansehen beruht vor allem auf einer wissenschaftlich fundierten und zugleich praxisorientierten Kommentierung. Dem fuhlt sich auch die Neuauflage, die zum Inkrafttreten der VVG-Reform erscheint, in besonderem Mae verpflichtet. Die Neuauflage zeichnet sich durch zahlreiche konzeptionelle Neuerungen aus. Zu ihnen gehoren neben einer einheitlichen Struktur der einzelnen Kommentierungen eine wesentlich groere Anzahl von Kommentatoren und eine groere Anzahl von...