Handbook to Marine Insurance - Eighth Edition

This book offers a comprehensive overview of marine insurance, covering its origins, practical application and specific contexts such as marine salvage law. The book is written from the viewpoint of British Law and will aid underwriters and lawyers operating in the marine insurance market.

Chapter 1 A Summary of the History of Marine Insurance

Chapter 2 The Practice of Marine Insurance

The Marine Insurance Market

Chapter 3 The Practice of Marine Insurance

Considerations Affecting an Underwriter when Estimating Risks

Chapter 4 The Practice of Marine Insurance

Marine Insurance Policy Forms

Chapter 5 The Law of Marine Insurance

The Marine Insurance Acts, 1906–1909

Chapter 6 Reinsurance

Chapter 7 Mutual Insurance: Protection and Indemnity

Chapter 8 Collision Liabilities: The Running Down Clause

Chapter 9 Marine Insurance Claims

Chapter 10 General Average

Chapter 11 Marine Salvage

Appendices

Appendix A The Marine Insurance Act, 1906

Appendix B The Marine Insurance Act, 1909

Appendix C The Maritime Conventions Act, 1911

Appendix D Rules of Practice of the Association of Average Adjusters

Appendix E York-Antwerp Rules, 1974

Appendix F Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924, with commentary

Appendix G Statutory Provisions relating to Limitation of Shipowners’ Liability

Victor Dover
The late Victor Dover devoted his life to the study of marine insurance. He was Secretary of the Insurance Institute of London for 20 years had three treatises published for the marine insurance market.

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(Incorporating revisions by) Robert H. Brown)

The late Robert Henry Brown F.Inst. A.M. A.C.I.I enlisted with the United States Navy in 1952 before serving on a supply ship during the Korean War. He subsequently pursued a career in academia, writing and editing several publications on marine insurance.