Insurance Law
Objectives
In this course, students will gain an understanding of the basics of insurance: what it is for and how it works. Students will be able to identify insurance needs and they will know how to go to market and satisfy such needs. Students will be able to interpret and find their way around an insurance contract. When given the facts of a hypothetical legal problem relating to insurance, students will be able to solve it.
General characterization
Code
33158
Credits
4
Responsible teacher
Margarida Lima Rego,Vítor Boaventura Xavier
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 112
Teaching language
Available soon
Prerequisites
Not Applicable
Bibliography
Not Applicable
Teaching method
A team-based learning approach will be followed. Students must prepare for each class and will be called upon to carry out individual and group problem-solving exercises.
Evaluation method
All students will be evaluated by means of an anonymous final written exam (3 hours). During the semester, students will have the opportunity to be continuously evaluated by taking an active part in the classroom. Students will be evaluated for their individual and group performance by the professor and by their peers. The final grade will be: a) the grade obtained in the final exam, for students who do not obtain a continuous evaluation grade; and, for students who do, b) the higher of: (i) the grade obtained in the final exam; and (ii) an average of the final exam and the continuous evaluation grades.
Subject matter
1. Introduction. The basics of insurance: what it is for and how it works. Origins of insurance.
2. Designing, concluding, interpreting and finding one s way around an insurance contract.
3. Loss has occurred: is it covered?
4. Identifying and satisfying insurance needs.