How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim
by Joseph Matthews
from NOLO
The book that helps you overcome the insurance companies' Goliath
Dealing with insurance companies and lawyers when filing a personal injury claim can feel like another accident is in the offing. But you can handle a claim yourself -- and save hundreds or thousands of dollars in the process.
How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim shows you how to handle almost every accident situation, and guides you through the insurance claim process, step by step. Learn how to:
-protect your rights after an accident
-determine what your claim is worth
-handle a property-damage claim
-deal with uncooperative doctors, lawyers and insurance companies
-counter the special tactics insurance companies use
-prepare a claim for compensation
-negotiate a full and fair settlement
-stay on top of your case if you hire a lawyer
This completely updated edition of How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim provides your state's most recent laws, small-claims court limits and Department of Insurance information.
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
by Franz Kafka
from Princeton University Press
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is commonly recognized as the greatest German prose writer of the twentieth century. It is less well known that he had an established legal career. Kafka's briefs reveal him to be a canny bureaucrat, sharp litigator, and innovative thinker on the social, political, and legal issues of his time. His official preoccupations inspired many of the themes and strategies of the novels and stories he wrote at night.
These documents include articles on workmen's compensation and workplace safety; appeals for the founding of a psychiatric hospital for shell-shocked veterans; and letters arguing relentlessly for a salary adequate to his merit. In adjudicating disputes, promoting legislative programs, and investigating workplace sites, Kafka's writings teem with details about the bureaucracy and technology of his day, such as spa elevators in Marienbad, the challenge of the automobile, and the perils of excavating in quarries while drunk. Beautifully translated, with valuable commentary by two of the world's leading Kafka scholars and one of America's most eminent civil rights lawyers, the documents cast rich light on the man and the writer and offer new insights to lovers of Kafka's novels and stories.
Insurance Law in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
by John F. Dobbyn
from West Group Publishing
Reliable source on the fundamentals of insurance law covers topics such as insurable interest, risk, insurer defenses, waiver and estoppel, recovery, subrogation, reinsurance, and bonds. In addition, expert analysis provides a sense of the peculiar directions insurance law would take, and their erroneous outcomes, if the pure principles of contract law were applied.
Casenote Legal Briefs: Insurance Law - Keyed to Abraham
by Casenotes
from Aspen Publishers
After your casebook, "Casenotes" will be your most important reference source for the entire semester. It is the most popular legal briefs series available, with over 140 titles, and is relied on by thousands of students for its expert case summaries, comprehensive analysis of concurrences and dissents, as well as of the majority opinion in the briefs.
Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition
by Philip Booth
from Chapman & Hall/CRC
In the years since the publication of the first edition of this best-selling text, the incorporation of ideas and theories from the rapidly growing field of financial economics has precipitated considerable development of thinking in the actuarial profession. Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition integrates those changes and presents an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of UK and international actuarial theory, practice and modeling. It describes all of the traditional areas of actuarial activity, but in a manner that highlights the fundamental principles of actuarial theory and practice as well as their economic, financial, and statistical foundations.
The Medical Malpractice Myth
by Tom Baker
from University Of Chicago Press
American health care is in crisis because of exploding medical malpractice litigation. Insurance premiums for doctors and malpractice lawsuits are skyrocketing, rendering doctors both afraid and unable to afford to practice medicine. Undeserving victims sue at the drop of a hat, egged on by greedy lawyers, and receive eye-popping awards that insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors themselves struggle to pay. The plaintiffs and lawyers always win; doctors, and the nonlitigious, always lose; and affordable health care is the real victim.
This, according to Tom Baker, is the myth of medical malpractice, and as a reality check he offers The Medical Malpractice Myth, a stunning dismantling of this familiar, but inaccurate, picture of the health care industry. Are there too many medical malpractice suits? No, according to Baker; there is actually too much medical malpractice, with only a fraction of the cases ever seeing the inside of a courtroom. Is too much litigation to blame for the malpractice insurance crisis? No, for that we can look to financial trends and competitive behavior in the insurance industry. Point by point, Baker—a leading authority on insurance and law—pulls together the research that demolishes the myths that have taken hold and suggests a series of legal reforms that would help doctors manage malpractice insurance while also improving patient safety and medical accountability.
The Medical Malpractice Myth is a book aimed squarely at general readers but with radical conclusions that speak to the highest level of domestic policymaking.
Insurance Law and Policy: Cases, Materials, and Problems (Casebook)
by Tom Baker
from Aspen Publishers
Insurance Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, Second Edition, authored by Tom Baker, a well-known and highly regarded figure in insurance law teaching and scholarship, is a contemporary text that stresses the big-picture role of insurance in American business and society. Thoroughly revised for currency in its second edition, this highly regarded casebook continues to be interesting and eminently teachable.
Among the features that made this casebook a success:
Coverage that focuses on the big picture of federal-state regulatory roles in addition to the traditional insurance coverage topics;
Extensive use of statutory materials, presented through problems;
Manageable assignments, most structured to contain one major case followed by informative notes and questions and a problem;
Interesting, well-edited, up-to-date cases on topics such as the World Trade Center attack, Katrina, and the latest Supreme Court decisions on punitive damages and employment-based insurance benefits;
A web site that features links to supplemental reading, updates, and other materials.
Revised and completely updated, the Second Edition:
Now organizes liability insurance coverage into separate units for different kinds of liability insurance and includes new units on auto and professional liability insurance;
Includes a new unit in the property insurance section on Katrina;
Moves regulation to the back of the text, reflecting the judgment that students appreciate and understand that topic best once they have learned about insurance through the traditional insurance coverage topics;
Simplifies and updates ERISA materials and incorporates them into the units on health and disability insurance so that students learn about ERISA in context;
Incorporates extensive feedback from satisfied adopters of the first edition.
Concise and problem-oriented, Insurance Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, Second Edition, is an excellent resource for those learning insurance law.
Reinsurance Regulation: A Contemporary and Comparative Study (International Banking, Finance and Economic Law, Volume 25)
by Norquist
from Kluwer Law International
We seem to be living at a time when insurance is strained to the breaking point. From hurricanes and earthquakes to terrorist attacks and threats of nuclear devastation, enormous risks to life and property -- and accompanying liabilities -- proliferate on an unprecedented scale. Insurer insolvency is not yet common, but it is not unusual either. And at the root of such failures often lies the compound failure of uncollectable reinsurance. This important book proposes that a significant part of the emerging insurance crisis results from inadequate regulation of reinsurance. In a detailed and cogent analysis of what an effective regulatory regime for reinsurance must entail, the author examines such factors as the following: + direct supervision of reinsurers versus supervision of reinsurance policies; + models from developed countries (US, UK, EU) and international organisations (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Association of Insurance Supervisors); + the importance of taking legal and economic differences into account while applying models; + the problem of local protectionism, especially in developing countries; + the dismantling of trade barriers in the reinsurance industry; + global harmonization of reinsurance regulation; + the role of reinsurance intermediaries; + finite risk reinsurance; and + insurance-linked securities. The author's concluding chapter presents an essential legal infrastructure that allows for efficiency, security, and individual market characteristics. Professor Wang then applies this framework to the Taiwanese insurance market, demonstrating convincingly how his proposed regime can solve specific problems while respecting Taiwan's distinct market environment. As a meticulously considered appraisal of, and solution to, a world problem that is growing quickly and uncontrollably, Reinsurance Regulation will be of immense value to lawyers, professors, academics, and officials who deal with any facet of economic law.
Insurance Law And Regulation: Cases And Materials (University Casebook) (University Casebook)
by Kenneth S. Abraham
from Foundation Press
This casebook provides detailed information on insurance law. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.
The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis
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