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Insurance and Human Rights

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This volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance.

National, supranational and international legal instruments regulating the taking-up and pursuit of the business of insurance and reinsurance, (re)insurance distribution and the insurance contract often refer to or impact on human or fundamental rights. Courts are often faced with the sometimes seemingly impossible task of reconciling insurance core principles, practices and mind-sets with the principles and values stemming from human rights protection. In some cases, such as that of discrimination in insurance, this discussion has been going on for decades. Some deal with hot topics which have more recently emerged in light of developments stemming from technologic innovations ('InsurTech').
The first part of the book focuses on insurance and the right to equal treatment. Discrimination on the basis of factors such as gender or age is tackled, from the perspectives of the European Union, Canada and South Africa. The second part of the book highlights the very relevant role played by insurance in the upholding of the right to health, covering the United States of America, Africa and Brazil. The third part of the book explores InsurTech's manifold challenges upon the right to privacy, focusing on European Union. The fourth part tackles the threat posed by insurance on the right to life in general, but with a particular focus on the United Kingdom.
Written by legal scholars and practitioners, the book offers international, comparative and regional or national perspectives, aiming to contribute to a more thorough and systematic understanding of the interactions between these two very different fields of law, providing the industry as well as the scientific community with insights from both sides of this seemingly difficult to transpose divide.

This volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance.

National, supranational and international legal instruments regulating the taking-up and pursuit of the business of insurance and reinsurance, (re)insurance distribution and the insurance contract often refer to or impact on human or fundamental rights. Courts are often faced with the sometimes seemingly impossible task of reconciling insurance core principles, practices and mind-sets with the principles and values stemming from human rights protection. In some cases, such as that of discrimination in insurance, this discussion has been going on for decades. Some deal with hot topics which have more recently emerged in light of developments stemming from technologic innovations ('InsurTech').
The first part of the book focuses on insurance and the right to equal treatment. Discrimination on the basis of factors such as gender or age is tackled, from the perspectives of the European Union, Canada and South Africa. The second part of the book highlights the very relevant role played by insurance in the upholding of the right to health, covering the United States of America, Africa and Brazil. The third part of the book explores InsurTech's manifold challenges upon the right to privacy, focusing on European Union. The fourth part tackles the threat posed by insurance on the right to life in general, but with a particular focus on the United Kingdom.
Written by legal scholars and practitioners, the book offers international, comparative and regional or national perspectives, aiming to contribute to a more thorough and systematic understanding of the interactions between these two very different fields of law, providing the industry as well as the scientific community with insights from both sides of this seemingly difficult to transpose divide.
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VerlagSpringer
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Seitenangabe272 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.5 cm 417 g
ReiheAIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation
AutorLima Rego, Margarida (Hrsg.) / Kuschke, Birgit (Hrsg.)

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Über den Autor Margarida (Hrsg.) Lima Rego

Prof. Margarida Lima Rego is full professor and dean of NOVA School of Law, NOVA University, Lisbon, where she has lectured regularly since 2005. She is the holder of the Jean Monnet Module in EU Insurance Law: Challenges in the SDG Era. Margarida's main areas of research and practice are civil and commercial law, with a special focus on insurance law. She has been a member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities since December 2021. Margarida is an active researcher at CEDIS, the School's R&D Unit, where she founded and coordinates the NOVA Knowledge Centre for Data-Driven Law. Current positions include: President of AIDA Portugal; member of the Executive Committee and Scientific Committee of AIDA Europe; of the Scientific Committee of CILA; and of the Presidential Council of AIDA World.Prof. Simon Grima is the the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, and the Head of the Departmentof Insurance and Risk Management. Simon is also a Professor at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics and a visiting Professor at UNICATT Milan. Moreover, he is the chairman of the Scientific Education Committee of the Public Risk Management Organization (PRIMO) and the Federation of European Risk Managers (FERMA) and has been awarded outstanding reviewer for Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance in the 2017 and 2022 Emerald Literati Awards.

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