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Insurance lawThe Hong Kong Law LibraryColinvaux’s Law of Insurance in Hong KongMainworkGeneral Editor: Professor Robert MerkinWLThis book will provide the reader with the generalprinciples of Hong Kong Insurance law based on HongKong and English precedents.Professor Merkin, the author of Colinvaux UK, and hisauthor team, have produced a Hong Kong work that,like its famous UK equivalent, will be an authoritativereference source and comprehensively covers anyinsurance topic that a practitioner may be looking into.• Focuses on specific classes of insurance, includinglife, property, motor, liability and reinsurance.• Based on the popular Colinvaux UK model,adapted especially for the Hong Kong insurancemarket• Includes a detailed discussion of Hong Kongregulatory legislation and of all other Ordinanceswhich lay down compulsory insurancerequirements or which affect insurance contracts• Suitable for anyone practising in insurance lawor reinsurance law, including solicitors and inhouselawyers, insurance companies and brokers,academics and students.• Includes an informative chapter on the insurancelaw of the PRCTABLE OF CONTENTS1. Contract of Insurance2. Conflict of Laws3. Construction of the Policy4. Insurable Interest5. The Risk6. Utmost Good Faith7. Terms of Insurance Contracts8. The Premium9. Claims10. Indemnity11. The Rights of Insurers12. Statutory Control of Policies13. The Assured14. Insurance Intermediaries15. Reinsurance16. Life and Accident Insurance17. Property Insurance18. Liability Insurance19. Motor Vehicle Insurance20. Financial Insurance21. Marine Insurance22. War Risks23. Insurance Law in the PRCFirst SupplementNEWThis Supplement to Colinvaux’s Law of Insurance inHong Kong expands its coverage of all the insurancetopics that the practitioner or reader may be lookingfor.The Supplement updates and inserts revisions to all23 chapters of the main volume and expands thecoverage and focus on specific classes of insurance,including all but certainly not limited to the followingfields of: (i) Life insurance; (ii) Property insurance; (iii)Motor vehicle (cars, boats, air) insurance; (iv) Liabilityinsurance; and (v) Reinsurance.The Supplement will also include an expandeddiscussion of Hong Kong regulatory legislation andof all other and relating Ordinances which lay downcompulsory insurance requirements or which affectinsurance contracts.Sweet & MaxwellNov 2009 978 962 66135 2 8 HardbackMainwork HK$3,675Mar 2012 978 962 66144 6 4 PaperbackSupplement HK$1,900Riley on Business Interruption InsuranceNinth EditionHarry RobertsNEW• Presents an all-embracing examination of businessinterruption and consequential loss insurance injurisdictions all around the world208+852 3762 3222 www.sweetandmaxwell.com.hk smhk.salesenquiries@thomsonreuters.comPrices are correct at time of going to press, but may be subject to change without prior notification