06425 - Insurance Law

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Statistical, Financial and Actuarial Sciences (cod. 8877)

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student has a legal background on insurance contracts and individual kinds of insurance.

Course contents


The Obligation

The fulfillment and non-fulfillment of obligations

The contract

The solidarity

Interpretation of contracts (in particular insurance contracts)

Torts

The insurance company

Insurance intermediaries

Insurance supervision

The insurance contract

Insurance concluded on its behalf between

The policyholder's declarations

The risk

The duration of the insurance contract

The premium

The intent in the insurance contract

Over-insurance and under-insurance

Co-insurance and plurality of insurers

Subrogation of the insurer

The disposal of insured items

Damage/Non life insurance

The indemnity principle

Insurance against property damage

Personal injury insurance

Liability insurance

Loss occurrence and claims made clauses

Life insurance Credit insurance

Compulsory insurance

Motor liability insurance

Reinsurance

Insurance litigation

Litigation management


Readings/Bibliography

M. Franzoni (a cura di), Diritto delle assicurazioni, Bologna, 2016

or

A. Donati - G. Volpe Putzolu, Manuale di Diritto delle Assicurazioni, Milano, Giuffrè, 2019, XII edizione.

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching using slide.

Specific teaching material will be delivered or recommended during the lectures., focusing on the rules of the Civil Code and the Insurance Act, along with some essays on the subject by Professor.

Assessment methods

The exam is aimed at evaluating the skills and the critical abilities developed by the students.

The exam is oral.

It is not possible to bring books, personal notes or electronic devices in the exam. Registration for the exam is compulsory, and students have to register throughAlmaEsami [https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm] according to the general rules of the School of Economics, Management and Statistics.

Topics relating to the obligation and the contract in general will be explored in depth during the lectures. Non-attendees should supplement the recommended bibliography with a text (or part of a text) introducing the bond and the contract to be agreed with the lecturer.

The mark is out of 30 points, and the minimum required to pass the exam is 18 / 30.

Teaching tools

Papers

Office hours

See the website of Lorenzo Locatelli

SDGs

Quality education Industry, innovation and infrastructure

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.