LAW 730 - Insurance Law

Course Type: Upper Level Elective
Credits: 3

Description: Insurance touches every lawyer’s practice. This course introduces students to the American insurance system by focusing upon routine areas of trial work and substantive statutory and common law. It provides an overview of the more common lines of business, such as auto, homeowners, umbrella, and liability, and it reviews standard policies and common doctrinal principles, especially as they relate to a plaintiffs’ or defense practice. The history of insurance and the constitutional foundations of state insurance regulation are presented. The course is intended to ensure that students understand the importance that insurance, not as a classroom subject, but as a practice area, plays in their future as lawyers and to allow them to recognize basic rules and any tests used to reach coverage and to ensure claims payments. The class is taught both by lecture and through traditional inquiry and discussion.