Marine Insurance: Law and Practice
(Winner of 2005 BILA Award)

Marine Insurance: Law and Practice is the most comprehensive integrated account of the English law and practice of marine insurance for nearly a quarter of a century. It provides a fresh and up-to-date review of the modern law in the light of traditional principles and rules of underlying commercial law, and the specific statutory rules of marine insurance as interpreted by case law, as moderated in practice by market practices and standard form marine insurance clauses, in particular the recently published and revised International Hulls Clauses 2003.

The text sets out both to restate the relevant rules and to explain how the different components of the law react with each other.

Marine Insurance: Law and Practice provides:

• Detailed consideration of clauses including Institute Clauses and International Hull Clauses 2003
• Common law cases
• Standard forms

• The Star Sea
• The Aegeon
• The Aliza Glacial
• Bayview v Mitsui
• The Kastor Too
• The Prestrioka
• Drake Insurance v Provident Insurance
• The Martin P
• The Kleovoulos of Rhodes