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Insurance regulatory law is the body of statutory law, administrative regulations and jurisprudence that governs and regulates the insurance industry and those engaged in the business of insurance. Insurance regulatory law is primarily enforced through regulations, rules and directives by state insurance departments as authorized and directed ...
The term Bermuda Form refers to various types of insurance policy.. In the 1980s, American companies found it increasingly difficult to buy large amounts of casualty (liability) insurance, partly because American courts interpreted policies in ways which gave coverage to policyholders which was wider than the insurers had anticipated, causing insurers large losses particularly in relation to ...
In contract law, a choice of law clause or proper law clause [1] is a term of a contract in which the parties specify that any dispute arising under the contract shall be determined in accordance with the law of a particular jurisdiction. [2] It determines the controlling law: the state which will be relied upon in settling disputes. An example ...
A loss payee clause (or loss payable clause) is a clause in a contract of insurance that provides, in the event of payment being made under the policy in relation to the insured risk, that payment will be made to a third party rather than to the insured beneficiary of the policy. Such clauses are common where the insured property is subject to ...
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the due process clause usually limits punitive damage awards to less than ten times the size of the compensatory damages awarded and that punitive damage awards of four times the compensatory damage award is "close to the line of constitutional impropriety".
[A]n insurer may, under [California] Insurance Code sections 331 and 359, rescind a fire insurance policy based on an insured's negligent or unintentional misrepresentation of a material fact in an insurance application, notwithstanding the willful misrepresentation clause included in the required standard form fire insurance policy (Insurance ...
In both United States law and English law, the hell or high water clause has historically been upheld in numerous cases. In the United States, this clause is given special protection under Article 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code when the agreement is classified as a finance lease. The article states that this special protection applies to a ...
Article 3 confirms the freedom of parties to choose the governing law of their contracts: A contract shall be governed by the law chosen by the parties. The choice of law of the parties can either be expressed in the contract or implied from an agreement that is "clearly demonstrated by the terms of the contract or the circumstances of the case ...