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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Insurance Law in Business Practice

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0326/02
Abbreviation PojPraPP
Course title Insurance Law in Business Practice
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator prof. JUDr. Naděžda Rozehnalová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Insurance system. Insurance law development. Sources, present legal regulation, basic terms, legal relations.
2. Insured risk, traditional methods of risks elimination, Law and contracting insurance. Insurance of professional responsibility and in entrepreneurship.
3. Legal regulation of insurance contract I. Basic terms, insurance – conclusion, contract interruption, contract termination. insurance conditions.
4. Legal regulation of insurance contract II. Damage and amount insurance, information provided.
5. Liquidation of insurance issues. .
6. Insurance fraud and possible solutions, international insurance fraud.
7. Legal regulation of insurance agents and liquidators I.
8. Legal regulation of insurance agents and liquidators II. System of unified passport for insurance agents.
9. Unified insurance market. Cooperation between controlling authorities of particular EU members.
10. Alternative methods of risk elimination. Captive insurers. Operation rules, advantages and disadvantages.
11. Insurance Act. Conditions of insurance operation. Controlling.
12. Legal aspects of reinsurance. Forms and types of reinsurance.

Literature

ASMUSSEN, Søren a Mogens STEFFENSEN. Risk and insurance: a graduate text. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. Probability theory and stochastic modelling. ISBN 978-3-030-35175-5 .
MCGURK, Brendan. Data profiling and insurance law. Oxford: Hart, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5099-2061-7.
REJDA, George E., Michael J. MCNAMARA a William H. RABEL. Principles of risk management and insurance. Fourteenth edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2022. ISBN 978-1-292-34974-9 .

Advised literature

GLAU, K. et al, ed. Innovations in insurance, risk- and asset management: conference at the Technical University of Munich. Singapore: World Scientific, 2019. ISBN 978-981-327-255-2 .
NICOLETTI, Bernardo. Insurance 4.0: benefits and challenges of digital transformation. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-58425-2 .
VANDERLINDEN, S., Shân M. M., ANDERSON, N. and S.CHISHTI, ed. The InsurTech book: the insurance technology handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and FinTech visionaries. Chichester: Wiley, 2018. ISBN 978-1-119-36221-0 .