This book is an up-to-date analysis of current issues affecting marine insurance law and market practice. It is authoritative advice from leading specialists drawn from the academic and professional worlds. The book includes a comparative analysis of aspects of English, Scandinavian, and US law and practice. Its in-depth analysis on key topics is often only touched upon in textbooks. Topics covered include: marine policies and undisclosed principals * the shifting boundary between marine and non-marine risks * jurisdictional issues * piracy and terrorism under the Norwegian Insurance Plan * liability of marine insurers for late payment of indemnity * insuring negligence and due diligence risks * the new Institute Cargo Clauses 2009 * the concept of indemnity in marine insurance * insuring the consequences of unlawful acts committed by third parties * development in US marine insurance law * the Marine Insurance Act 1906 * the Institute Cargo Clauses (2009) A, B, and C * the Institute W

This new title features the published papers of Professor D. Rhidian Thomas and a host of high profile speakers, originally presented at the Swansea International Colloquium on Marine Insurance Law 2005. It examines and analyses in-depth specific issues that are currently occupying the marine insurance markets and the law. The issues identified in this book are the fundamental issues on which marine insurance law is based, and of which are in the process of being re-examined and developed further to respond to the needs of modern insurance practice. The purpose of this text is to complement more general textbooks by delving more deeply into contemporary issues and thereby offering solutions rather than an introduction to problems.

This fifth volume in the series comprises ten contributions written by an expert team of academics and practitioners. Collectively they analyse and expound many of the contemporary legal issues and debates in the law and practice of marine insurance. The new volume is not to be considered as a "new edition" superseding the earlier volumes. To the contrary, it extends on the previous coverage and contributes to the expanding coverage of the series. It achieves this by introducing new topics for analysis and by noting significant developments in themes considered in earlier volumes, thereby providing a useful tool for keeping abreast of an ever developing body of judicial law. This volume tackles topics such as the impact of the Insurance Act 2015 on remedies and the pre-contractual duty of insurers, as well as a contribution from Professor Wilhelmsen on the state ship arrest as a peril under the Nordic Marine Insurance Plan and London terms. It explores the impact of Brexit on jurisdiction in marine insurance whilst also dedicating time to the comparison of US and English law relating to the duties of brokers, and analyses the "but for" test in marine insurance as well as historical development of the law relating to fraudulent claims. Alongside many other important topics, this book meticulously examines Direct and Third-Party claims against P & I Insurers, Passenger liabilities and class actions, Seaworthiness and the operation of the MIA 1906 s.39 post Insurance Act 2015 and the insuring of autonomous and remote-controlled vessels. This book is essential reading for maritime lawyers, brokers and insurance market practitioners, academics, and companies associated with the marine insurance markets worldwide.

This volume focuses on current issues affecting the market with regard to marine insurance. Written by a team of leading academics and practitioners, it analyzes the contemporary questions and debates in the law arising out of market practice and provides an up-to-date analysis of the law of marine insurance. Topics covered include:- held covered clauses, incorporation of terms into reinsurance contracts, valued policies, insurable interest, warranties, wilful misconduct, counter-claims by insurers and jurisdiction. It also provides an comparative analysis of the law and practice in Europe, Australia and the USA. Cumulatively the contributions provide a comprehensive statement of the modern law and practice of marine insurance.

This book is based on papers presented at the Sixth International Colloquium in September 2009, organized by the Institute of International Shipping and Trade at Swansea University. The 16 contributions have been written by a team of international experts who collectively submit the newly proposed Rotterdam Rules to a sustained, penetrative, and comprehensive analysis. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea 2009 - from which the Rotterdam Rules derive - potentially represents a development of unparalleled significance in the field of unimodal carriage of goods by sea and multimodal transport with a sea leg. The scale of the Rules is staggeringly wide, as also are their detail and complexity, and coming to a full understanding of the provisions and implications of the Rules represents a challenge even to those experienced in the law and practice of commercial shipping. The book examines virtually all aspects of the Rules and provid

This book addresses all the major questions and issues that arise in connection with time charterparties, examining them in a logical manner, progressively tracing the subject from the creation to the termination of the contract. All the salient and central legal aspects of time charterparties are examined, with the law analyzed in its commercial context, particularly in relation to the various ways in which time charterparties may be used in shipping and international trade. Contents include: the BIMCO (Baltic and International Maritime Council) experience construing terms in time charterparties ascertaining the charter period safe ports and places seaworthiness and the "Hong Kong Fir" decision indemnities in time charters hire, off-hire, and contractual remedies assignees of hire time charterparties and bills of lading clauses paramount in time charters war, terror, piracy, and frustration in a time charter context termination rights under time charters cargo

This book focuses upon the complex issues arising out of voyage charterparty contracts, bills of lading, and international sale contracts. It provides an in-depth discussion on key topics such as: the evolving nature of voyage charterparties jurisdiction and choice of law clauses legal issues relating to the preliminary voyage duties of owners with particular reference to seaworthiness cargo obligations of voyage charterers the concept of legally dangerous cargo laytime and demurrage periods and interruptions to each commencement of laytime and notice of readiness laytime and demurrage clauses in international sale contracts bills of lading issued under voyage charters bills of lading under European national laws comparative developments in US law deviation cancellation clauses and repudiatory breach frustration of voyage charters.