Enforcing insurance contracts

• Author: Denis Boivin
• Pages: 187-187

Once a valid insurance contract has been created, what are the main

issues concerning the enforcement of this agreement? These issues will

be the subject of Part Three. They fall into six broad categories —

namely, contract interpretation (Chapter 8), settling claims (Chapter

9), valuation of loss (Chapter 10), subrogation (Chapter 11), multiple

coverage (Chapter 12), and third parties (Chapter 13). In the cases

reviewed in this part, the insurer is not contesting the validity of the

agreement. Rather, the insurer is either challenging the contract’s appli-

cation to the facts or attempting to somehow reduce its liability for the

losses suffered by the insured.

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ENFORCING

INSURANCE

CONTRACTS

Part Three