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Insurance Law in Business Practice

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0326/06
Abbreviation PojPraPP
Course title Insurance Law in Business Practice
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator prof. JUDr. Naděžda Rozehnalová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic terms. Business risk and insurance. Insurance market entities. Insurance law. Sources, present legal regulation.
2. Business risk, traditional risk methods, alternative risk methods, captive insurance.
3. Legal relations of insurance law. Insurance contract legislation, conclusion, contract interruption, contract termination. insurance conditions.
4. Damage and loss insurance.
5. Legal and contractual insurance. Insurance in business practice. Insurance market trends for entrepreneurs and industry.
6. Property insurance - legal aspects. Liability insurance.
7. Liability. Liability insurance.
8. D&O Insurance.
9. Damage and insured event. Claims settlement.
10. Claims settlement. Specific cases (responsibility, cybernetics, etc.).
11. Insurance fraud and possible solutions, international insurance fraud.
12. Legal regulation of insurance intermediaries. Single passport for insurance intermediaries. Significance for the client.
13. Single insurance market. Member State supervisory cooperation. Insurance market in the Czech Republic and the EU.
14. International Insurance Law.

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 .