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Insurance Law in Business Practice

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Course Unit Code119-0326/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
ROZ21prof. JUDr. Naděžda Rozehnalová, CSc.
KRU53Ing. Martina Krügerová, Ph.D.
Summary
The aim of this subject is to acquire the students with legal regulation of private insurance, insurance as a obligatory legal relation and legal regulation of insurance business. Also the explanation of the basic regulation of EU Council of insurance is included as well as the principle of unified European passport. Student gains the knowledge out of those explanations and application of legal norms and in this way practical use of acquired knowledge will be supported.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Student will be able to:
• Describe regulative of insurance, enumerate doctrines of single insurance market.
• Identify legal insurance relation participants and infer rights and obligations. Differentiate individual categories of insurance intermediaries.
• Apply rule of law to resolution of concrete example.
• Analyze insurance contract, insurance terms and conditions.
• Propose to claim resolution.
• Evaluate advantages and disadvantages of single insurance market for Czech insurance market.
Course Contents
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.

Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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.
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.
KARFÍKOVÁ, M., PŘIKRYL, V., VYBÍRAL, R. a kolektiv. Pojišťovací právo. 2. přepracované vydání. Praha: Leges, 2018. ISBN 978-80-7502-271-4.
ŠVESTKA, Jiří. Občanský zákoník: komentář. Svazek VI, (§ 2521 až 3081). 2. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7598-955-0.
Recommended Reading:
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.
DOBIÁŠ, Petr. Pojištění podnikatelů ve vztazích s mezinárodním prvkem. Praha: Leges, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7502-348-3.
HRADEC, Milan a Žaneta BOUČKOVÁ. Aktuální legislativní změny v oboru pojištění a pojišťovnictví. Praha: Vysoká škola finanční a správní, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7408-176-7.
JEMELKA, Luboš. Zákon o distribuci pojištění a zajištění: komentář. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7552-354-9.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit30 15
        ExaminationExamination70 36