Informa Law from Routledge has published Reinsurance Contracts: Principles of Construction by Dr Senara Eggleton.
For readers with an insurance or commercial background, this book provides an accessible introduction to the rules that govern the legal relationship between the parties to reinsurance contracts while simultaneously presenting a concise, in-depth analysis of contemporary legal developments.
The text examines fundamental aspects of contract interpretation, including the presumption of back-to-back cover, follow the settlements clauses, liability for late payment of claims, claims clauses, aggregation of losses, and allocation of losses.
In her foreword, Cockerill LJ says "the time has certainly come" for a book on this topic, which "as a whole, has received limited… attention in the academic writing to date", and describes the book as “an invaluable contribution to the wider insurance and reinsurance literature... Chapter 3 builds impressively upon Dr Eggleton’s recent article in the Cambridge Law Journal – ‘Damages for Late Payment of Indemnity Insurance Claims: A Dead Duck?’ – and pulls the focus more tightly onto the reinsurance context. Section 13A has generally received limited attention in the academic literature and this provides, so far as I am aware, the first full assessment of the provision in relation to reinsurance… For practitioners presented with such a prospect, Chapter 3, and with it Dr Eggleton’s sketch of the way ahead for s13A, is nothing less than mandatory reading. It is, too, for academics interested in the area”.
For more information about this book, please refer to the Routledge website.
For information about other publications by Dr Eggleton, please refer to her Faculty profile.