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1. Insurance
1.1. Insurance Definition
Insurance is a contract whereby, in
return for the payment of premium by the
insured, the insurers pay the financial
losses suffered by the insured as a result
of the occurrence of unforeseen events.
1. Insurance
1.1. Insurance Definition
A contract between two parties whereby
one party called insurer undertakes in
exchange for a fixed sum called
premiums, to pay the other party called
insured a fixed amount of money on the
happening of a certain event
1. Insurance
1.2. Nature of insurance
i) Insurance provides financial protection against a
loss arising out of happening of an uncertain
event. A person can avail this protection by
paying premium to an insurance company.
ii) Insurance is the risk transferring from the
insured to the insurer
iii) Insurance works on the basic principle of risksharing.
iv) The business object in the insurance sector is
risk.
Example 1
SUPPOSE
Houses in a village = 1000
Value of 1 House = Rs. 40,000/Houses burning in a yr = 5
Total annual loss due to fire = Rs. 2,00,000/Contribution of each house owner = Rs. 300/-
UNDERLYING
ASSUMPTION
All 1000 house owners are exposed to a common risk, i.e. fire
PROCEDURE
All owners contribute Rs. 300/- each as premium to the
pool of funds
Total value of the fund = Rs. 3,00,000 (i.e. 1000 houses *
Rs. 300)
5 houses get burnt during the year
Insurance company pays Rs. 40,000/- out of the pool to all
5 house owners whose house got burnt
EFFECT OF INSURANCE
Risk of 5 house owners is spread over 1000 house owners
in the village, thus reducing the burden on any one of the
owners.
Example 2
SUPPOSE
Number of Persons = 5000
Age and Physical condition = 50 years & Healthy
Number of persons dying in a yr = 50
Economic value of loss suffered by family of each dying
person = Rs. 1,00,000/Total annual loss due to deaths = Rs. 50,00,000/Contribution per person = Rs. 1,200/UNDERLYING
ASSUMPTION
All 5000 persons are exposed to common risk, i.e. death
PROCEDURE
Everybody contributes Rs. 1200/- each as premium to the
pool of funds
Total value of the fund = Rs. 60,00,000 (i.e. 5000 persons *
Rs. 1,200)
50 persons die in a year on an average
Insurance company pays Rs. 1,00,000/- out of the pool to
the family members of all 50 persons dying in a year
EFFECT
OF
INSURANCE
Risk of 50 persons is spread over 5000 people, thus
reducing the burden on any one person.
2. Risk
2.1. Concept:
The term Risk is used to describe all the accidental
happenings which produce a monetary loss. For
e.g.: A factory catching fire, a ship sinking etc.
2. Risk
Risk is defined here as uncertainty
concerning the occurrence of a loss
2. Risk
2.2. Chance of loss: is defined as the
probability that an event will occur.
3. Re- insurance
Practice where an Insurance company
(the insurer) transfers a portion of its risks
to another (the re-insurer).
Legal right of the policyholders (insureds)
are in no way affected by reinsurance, and
the insurer remains liable to the insureds
for insurance policy benefits and claims.
4. Double Insurance
Situation in which the same risk is insured
by two overlapping but independent
insurance policy.
4. Double Insurance
Is it possible to obtain double insurance
and make claim to all insurers?
4. Double Insurance
YES!
It is lawful to obtain double insurance, and
the insured can make claim to
both insurers in the event of a loss.
4. Double Insurance
How much money that insured can
received from all insurers?
4. Double Insurance
The insured, however,
cannot profit (recover more than the loss
suffered) from this arrangement because
the insurers are law bound only
to share the actual loss in the
same proportion they share the
total premium
4. Double Insurance
Mr A involves in 3 insurance policies for
his car at 3 insurance companies X, Y, and
Z with insurance amounts are 300, 400,
500 million VND (insurance for physical
value of car); Assuming that the value of
the car is 500 million VND. Define the
compensation of each insurer?
5. Co- Insurance
Insurance held jointly by two or more
insurers.
6. Insurer/ Underwriter
The party to an insurance arrangement who
undertakes to indemnity for losses.
.
7. Insured
an insured or policyholder is the person
or entity buying the insurance and
receiving indemnity on happening of
unforeseen events
9. Insurance Value-V
The term value refers to the value of the
property, on the same basis used in
indemnifying losses; that basis is usually
actual cash value or replacement cost.
The replacement value of property is
equal to the amount it would cost to fully
repair or replace the property if it must be
reconstructed or purchased new.
Chapter 2
Fundamental Legal Principles
Outline
Insurance is a repayment of a random
loss
Utmost Good Faith
Insurable Interest
Indemnity
Subrogation
Insurance is a repayment of a
random loss
The timing or occurrence of the loss must be
uncertain.
For example, you can't know your house is going to
be destroyed in three weeks by a demolition team
and still get home owner's insurance.
To be able to fully service major claims, small claims
are not covered. This is what the deductible is for.
Only damage or loss over the amount of the
deductible is covered by the insurance policy.
Insurable Interest
The legal right enjoyed by the owner of a
property to insure is called Insurable
Interest. The insurance will become null
and void, without the insurable interest.
Purposes:
To prevent gambling
To reduce moral hazard
To measure the amount of the insureds loss
in property insurance
Insurable Interest
Examples of insurable interest:
Property and Casualty insurance: ownership
of property
Potential legal liability
Secured creditors
Contractual right
Insurable Interest
Insurable risk:
Capable of financial measurement
A large enough amount of similar risks
Not be against public policy
Reasonable premium
Insurable Interest
Insurable interest is where you have a valid
reason to insure and stand to suffer a direct
financial loss if the event insured against occurs.
Insurable interest exists when an insured
derives a financial or other benefit from the
continuous existence of an insured object
Insurable Interest
When must an insurable interest exist?
In property insurance, the insurable interest
must exist at the time of the loss:
The insured must incur his financial loss
You may not have an insurable interest in the
property when the contract is first written but may
expect to have one in the future, at the time of
possible loss
Indemnity
The principle of Indemnity states that under the policy of
insurance, the insured has to be placed after the loss in
the same financial position in which he was immediately
before the loss.
2 fundamental purposes:
To prevent the insured from profiting from a loss
To reduce moral hazard
Indemnity
Applicability:
o When the losses suffered by the insured can be
measured in terms of money
o It is practicable to place the insured in the same
financial position which he occupied before the
loss
Subrogation
Transfer of rights and remedies from the insured to
the insurer who has indemnified the insured in
respect of the loss.
The right of an insurer which has paid a claim under
a policy to step into the shoes of the insured so as
to exercise in his name all rights he might have with
regard to the recovery of the loss which was the
subject of the relevant claim paid under the policy
up to the amount of that paid claim. The insurers
subrogation rights may be qualified in the policy.
Subrogation
The principle of subrogation strongly
supports the principle of indemnity
The insurer is entitled to recover from a
negligent third party any loss payment
made to the insured
Subrogation
Purposes:
Prevent the insured from collecting twice for
the same loss
Is used to hold the negligent person
responsible for the loss
Help to hold down insurance rate
CHAPTER III:
MARINE INSURANCE
Outline
Introduction
Risk, damage
Marine cargo insurance
I. Introduction
1. Marine insurance covers the loss or
damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and
any transport or property by which cargo
is transferred, acquired, or held between
the points of origin and final destination.
4. MARINE INSURANCE
MARKET
LLOYDS, A CORPORATE ESTABLISHED IN LONDON,
IS THE BIGGEST CENTRE FOR MARINE INSURANCE
IN THE WORLD
Titanic Crash
5. Classification
III. Losses
Losses sustained by the insured due to the risks
listed above come from not only the loss of the
goods or the damage dine to the goods, but also
from the expenses the insured sustained in
rescuing the goods in danger.
The losses and the damages done to the goods
can fall into total loss and partial loss
Total loss includes Actual Loss and Constructive
Total Loss
Partial Loss means that the loss or damage dine
to the goods is only partial. Partial loss can be
either general average or particular average
Total
loss
Partial
loss
Actual total
loss
Constructive
total loss
General
Average Loss
Particular
Average
Total Loss
Actual total Loss: means
the whole lot of the
consignment has been
lost or damaged or
found valueless upon
arrival at the port of
destination
Treat as
partial loss
Constructive
total loss
Or as CTL
Reasonably
abandoned
(if NOA would
have
Any possibility of
benefit to insurer)
Insurer accepts:
admitted
interest and deal
with
subject matter
insured
as its own
Insurer rejects:
partial
Loss or ACT
Partial Loss
Particular Average: losses of each insured
interest individually due to acts of God or
Perils of the sea
Insurers liability: compensate for both of
the losses and reasonable costs caused
by particular average.
Goods: Reasonable costs are the cost used
for saving cargo or reducing its damaged
measurement.
General Average
General Average: the losses/ damages caused by
special expenses and sacrifices that intentionally and
reasonably conducted to save the vessel, cargo and
freight from a threat in the common ocean voyage.
There is a general average act when, and only when,
any extraordinary sacrifice or expenditure is intentionally
and reasonably made or incurred for the common safety
for the purpose of preserving from peril the property
involved in a common maritime adventure.
=> General Average are for the common safety of all of the
interests (cargo, vessel, freight)
General Average
A ship carrying goods in stranding status
Order of master: a part of cargo is
jettisoned, main engine is damaged (due
to the act of forcing the ship off)
Result: After repairs at the port of refuge,
the ship is able to complete her voyage
with the rest of her cargo.
Examples
Cargo, freight:
Jettison from underdeck.
Jettison from on deck.
Water or other means used to extinguish a fire
on board ship.
Discharge and re-shipment for the purpose of
floating a stranded ship when in a position of
peril
Examples
Ships materials:
Masts, spars, sails or rigging cut away for the
common safety.
Chains and anchors slipped to avert a threatening
peril.
Damage to a vessel's machinery, ropes, winches,
windlass and other gear sustained in endeavours to
float a stranded ship when in a position of peril.
Damage done in the efforts to extinguish a fire on
board or in the process of jettisoning cargo.
Examples
Expenditure:
Expenses incurred in floating a stranded ship
in peril.
Inward expenses entering a port of refuge to
repair damage to ship.
Cost of discharging cargo at a port of refuge
for the purpose of repairing damage to ship.
Cost of warehousing, re-shipment of cargo
and outward expenses leaving the port of
refuge.
General Average
Essential features:
The loss must be voluntary
It must be properly made
It must be extraordinary in its nature
The object of the sacrifice or expenditure must be
nothing other or less than the common safety of ship
and cargo
There must be imminent danger, and the object must
be the attainment of safety
The loss must be the direct result or reasonably the
consequence of the act causing it
General Average
Contents:
GA Sacrifices: to sacrifice properties for the rest ones.
GA Expenditures: consequent costs of GA act or
expenditures concerning GA act:
Salvage cost
Temporary repairs cost
Cost at port of refuge
Wages and maintenance of master, officers and crew
reasonably incurred and fuel and stores consumed during
the prolongation of the voyage occasioned by a ship entering
a port or place of refuge or returning to her port or place of
loading
Interest of 7% shall be allowed on expenditure, sacrifices and
allowances in general average until three months after the
date of issue of the general average adjustment
General Average
Ship-owner/ masters liabilities:
Form GA Notice
Arrange survey service to assess the measure of
damage
Send average bond and average guarantee
Arrange GA adjuster
Form Sea Protest (if applicable)
General Average
Legal issues:
York Rules 1864
York- Antwerp 1924
York- Antwerp 1950, 1974, 1990, 1994, 2004
General Average
Amendments of York- Antwerp Rules 2004:
Rule VI: salvage remuneration is not included in GA
Rule XX: A commission of 2 per cent. on GA disbursements,
other than the wages and maintenance of masters, officers and
crew and fuel and stores not replaced during the voyage is not
included in GA
Rule XXI: Interest shall be allowed on expenditure, sacrifices
and allowances in GA until three months after the date of issue
of the general average adjustment. Each year the Assembly of
the Committee Maritime International shall decide the rate of
interest which shall apply. This rate shall be used for calculating
interest accruing during the following calendar year.
Rule XXIII: limitation of claims: 1 year after the date upon which
GA adjustment was issued or 6 years from the date of
termination of the common maritime adventure. These periods
may be extended if the parties so agree after the termination of
the common maritime adventure
General Average
GA adjustment
Arrange a GA adjuster
Contributing interests: vessel, cargo, unpaid
freight/freight at risk
General Average
Calculation:
Step 1: Determine GA value, which consists of
GA sacrifices and expenditures
If goods are sacrificed in GA act, value of the
goods is calculated based on loading/ unloading
value or the one in commercial invoice. It includes
insurance premium and freight, except one case
when cargo owner is not liable for paying the
freight.
General Average
Step 2: Determine total value of
contributing interests: consists of value of
all interests in vessel that were saved by
GA act, including properties sacrificed in
GA act.
Those damages belong to particular average
occurred before the GA act are not included in
contributing value/ after the GA act are
included in contributing value
General Average
Step 3: Determine contributing rate:
Rate = total GA value/ total Contributing value
Step 4: Determine contributing value of each
interest
C = Contributing rate X contributing value
Step 5: Determine financial result (actual
income/ expenditure of ship owner/ cargo owner
after deducting value of the properties or
expenditures spending in GA act
Contraband
Willful misconduct of the assured
Deviation
Delay
Inherent vice or nature of subject- matter insured
Unseaworthiness of vessel
Insolvency or financial default of the owner or the
operator of the vessel
Contract of sale
FOB: Buyer pays freight, buyer arranges
insurance
CFR: Seller pays freight, buyer arranges
insurance
CIF: Seller pays freight, seller arranges
insurance
Types of vessels
General Cargo Vessel Built for specific purpose like car
pollution
Types of Policies
TA
HA
TB TA
HB
TB
TA
HA
TB
TA
TB
HB
P&I Insurance
Protection and Indemnity insurance, or P&I as it is usually
called, is shipowners insurance cover for legal liabilities to
third parties
Third parties are any person, apart from the shipowner
himself, who may have a legal or contractual claim against the
ship
P&I insurance is usually arranged by entering the ship in a
mutual insurance association, usually referred to as a club.
Shipowners are members of such clubs.
Legal liability is decided in accordance with the laws of the
country where an accident takes place
The P&I insurance cover for contractual liability is agreed at
the time the owner requests insurance cover from the club and
is usually in accordance with the owners responsibility under
crew contracts or special terms relating to the trading pattern
of the vessel.
The club only provides cover for nes imposed on the member, not
the crew. However, the club does have a discretion to cover members
if they pay a ne imposed on the master or crew because they are
legally obliged to do so, or because the club accepts that it was
reasonable to do so
CHAPTER 4:
INTRODUCTION TO RISK
MANAGEMENT