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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

Table of Key Legislation<br />

Table of Key Cases<br />

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INTRODUCTION 1<br />

A Background: <strong>Insurance</strong> Contract <strong>Law</strong> 1<br />

B <strong>Insurance</strong> Contract <strong>Law</strong>: Some Key<br />

Common <strong>Law</strong> Principles 1<br />

C <strong>Insurance</strong> Contract <strong>Law</strong>: pre-1922 Legislation 1<br />

D Regulation and Supervision of <strong>Insurance</strong>:<br />

pre-1922 Legislation 2<br />

E Regulation and Supervision of <strong>Insurance</strong><br />

during the 20 th Century 2<br />

F Regulation and Supervision of <strong>Insurance</strong>: the<br />

EU influence 2<br />

G Statutory Regulation of <strong>Insurance</strong> <strong>Contracts</strong> 3<br />

H Regulation and Oversight by the Financial Regulator<br />

and the Financial Services Ombudsman (FSO) 3<br />

I The development of Principles of European<br />

<strong>Insurance</strong> Contract <strong>Law</strong> (PEICL) 4<br />

J The <strong>Commission</strong>‘s General Approach in this<br />

Consultation Paper 4<br />

A Outline of Consultation Paper 5<br />

CHAPTER 1 REGULATORY CONTEXT 9<br />

A Introduction 9<br />

B Overlapping regulation of Irish insurance contract<br />

law and commercial practices 9<br />

(1) Regulatory overlaps – financial services legislation 9<br />

(2) Regulatory Overlaps – Competition <strong>Law</strong> 9<br />

(3) Regulatory Overlaps - Equality Legislation 10<br />

(4) Regulatory Overlaps - The Data Protection<br />

<strong>Commission</strong>er 11<br />

(5) Regulatory Overlaps – Consumer Protection<br />

Agencies 13<br />

(6) Financial Services and consumers 14<br />

(7) The Jurisdiction of the Financial Services<br />

Ombudsman 14<br />

(8) Merger of the Industry ADR Scheme with the<br />

Statutory Model 15<br />

C European Union Initiatives on <strong>Insurance</strong> Regulation 17<br />

(1) Single Market for <strong>Insurance</strong> 17<br />

(2) Adverse comments on the proposed insurance<br />

contracts directive – the <strong>Law</strong> <strong>Commission</strong> for<br />

England and Wales 18<br />

(3) Recent European Developments 18<br />

(4) The Restatement of European <strong>Insurance</strong><br />

Contract <strong>Law</strong> – The Project Group 20<br />

D New Legal Norms and forms of Dispute Resolution 22<br />

(1) The adjudications of the <strong>Insurance</strong><br />

Ombudsman 1992-1998 22<br />

(2) Decisions of the Financial Services Ombudsman 24<br />

(3) The failure to legislate 24<br />

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