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OverviewThis book adopts an international perspective to examine how the online sale of insurance challenges the insurance regulation and the insurance contract, with a focus on insurance sales, consumer protection, cyber risks and privacy, as well as dispute resolution. Today insurers, policyholders, intermediaries and regulators interact in an increasingly online world with profound implications for what has up to now been a traditionally operating industry. While the growing threats to consumer and business data from cyber attacks constitute major sources of risk for insurers, at the same time cyber insurance has become the fastest growing commercial insurance product in many jurisdictions. Scholars and practitioners from Europe, the United States and Asia review these topics from the viewpoints of insurers, policyholders and insurance intermediaries. In some cases, existing insurance regulations appear readily adaptable to the online world, such as prohibitions on deceptive marketing of insurance products and unfair commercial practices, which can be applied to advertising through social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as to traditional written material. In other areas, current regulatory and business practices are proving to be inadequate to the task and new ones are emerging. For example, the insurance industry and insurance supervisors are exploring how to review, utilize, profit from and regulate the explosive growth of data mining and predictive analytics (“big data”), which threaten long-standing privacy protection and insurance risk classification laws. This book’s ambitious international scope matches its topics. The online insurance market is cross-territorial and cross-jurisdictional with insurers often operating internationally and as part of larger financial-services holding companies. The authors’ exploration of these issues from the vantage points of some of the world’s largest insurance markets – the U.S., Europe and Japan – provides a comparative framework, which is necessary for the understanding of online insurance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pierpaolo Marano , Ioannis Rokas , Peter KochenburgerPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 7.391kg ISBN: 9783319284088ISBN 10: 3319284088 Pages: 395 Publication Date: 06 October 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPierpaolo Marano, Associate Professor of Insurance Law, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences - Milan, Senior Legal Of Counsel PWC legal, Milan - Rome, Italy Ioannis Rokas, Professor of Commercial Law (ret.), Athens University of Economics & Business, Senior Partner Rokas & Partners Law firm, Athens, Greece Peter Kochenburger, Associate Clinical Professor of Insurance Law, Deputy Director Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut, Law School, Hartford, USA Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |