Insurability of Emerging Risks: Law, Theory and Practice

Authors

Edited by Baris Soyer and Özlem Gürses

ISBN: 9781509978717

Published: January 2025

Format: Hardback

Language: English

Publisher: Hart Publishing

Description

This book brings together leading experts in insurance and the law of obligations to consider how insurance law is attempting to deal with emerging risks. It asks how far existing private law rules can cope with risks such as climate-related exposure, autonomous systems and cyber threats, and how the law should develop where they cannot.

Key Features

Examines the suitability of current insurance business models for insuring climate-related risks, autonomous systems, and mass or systemic risks such as pandemics or cyber risks. Evaluates governments' roles in closing potential coverage gaps. Considers add-on coverages as a route to insuring previously uninsurable exposures.

Coverage

Conceptual and regulatory foundations of insurability; environmental and natural catastrophe risk; technology-related risks including autonomous systems and cyber; the role of public-private partnerships in insurance capacity.

About the Editors

Baris Soyer is Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law at Swansea University. Özlem Gürses is Professor of Maritime Law at Tulane University Law School, formerly King's College London.

Table of Contents

Introduction — Part I: Conceptual, Theoretical and Regulatory Issues — Part II: Insuring Various Emerging Risks: Environmental Risks — Part III: Insuring Various Emerging Risks: Technology Related Risks.

Why buy this book?

Written by the leading names in marine and commercial insurance scholarship, this collection is the natural companion to the marine-specific literature on cyber-worthiness, MASS insurance and seaworthiness — essential for anyone assessing how underwriting must adapt to autonomous and connected risk.

Keywords

Insurability, emerging risks, cyber risk insurance, autonomous systems insurance, climate risk insurance, insurance law theory

Target Audience

Insurance law academics, underwriters, marine and commercial insurers, policymakers and regulators, PhD researchers in insurance and maritime law

Genre

Insurance Law, Commercial Law

Q&A 

Q: Can cyber risk be made insurable under current insurance law?
A: The book examines how mass or systemic risks such as cyber risk can be made insurable through add-on coverages to conventional policies.

Q: How does insurance law treat autonomous systems as an emerging risk?
A: A dedicated part of the book addresses technology-related risks, including the insurability of autonomous systems.

Q: Who edited this book?
A: It is edited by Baris Soyer (Swansea University) and Özlem Gürses (Tulane University Law School).

Where can I buy Insurability of Emerging Risks?
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