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Insurance Law in Business Practice

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Course Unit Code119-0326/06
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
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. 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.
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
Graded creditGraded credit100 (100)51
        ProjektProject20 5
        Písemný testWritten test80 46