Insurance in private international law
Subtitle: a European perspective
By: Francesco Seatzu.
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Conflict of laws -- Insurance -- European Union countries.
Description: "This book provides a much-needed analysis of this very important subject for international business lawyers,including discussion of the jurisdictional and choice of laws issues arising from cross-border contracts of insurance and reinsurance concluded by electronic means. This book is the first published in England to devote itself to a detailed analysis of the choice of laws rules in the E.C. Insurance Directives. It is aimed at academics and practitioners, at private international lawyers and at insurance lawyers. The private international law rules of the E.C. Insurance Directives deal with the applicable law to insurance contracts covering risks situated within the EU. They do not deal with the applicable law to reinsurance contracts and insurance contracts covering risks situated outside the EU. This should be ascertained by reference to the choice of laws provisions in the 1980 Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations. Detailed discussion of these rules is also provided, and proposals for reform suggested."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-313).
Table of contents: title: The substantive law in Europe; title: The significance of substantive law background for private international law; title: General remarks on insurance conflict of laws; title: Admission of insurance and reinsurance services and products to the EU market : conflict of laws issues; title: The special rules of the Brussels Regulation and Lugano Convention for insurance and reinsurance disputes; title: Recognition and enforcement of judgments in insurance and reinsurance matters; title: Forum shopping; title: The 1980 Rome Convention and the law applicable to insurance and reinsurance contracts; title: The choice of law rules in the second and third non-life directives; title: Applicable law under the second and third-life assurance directives; title: The implementation of the EC choice of laws provisions for insurance contracts in the United Kingdom; title: The EC choice of law rules for compulsory insurance contracts : the general rules; title: The EC choice of law rules for motor vehicle insurance contracts; title: Electronic commerce law in Europe; title: Insurance and reinsurance contracts concluded by electronic means : jurisdictional and applicable law problems; title: Choice of law in relation to insurance and reinsurance contracts concluded by electronic means.