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Title
Insurance and human rights / Margarida Lima Rego, Birgit Kuschke, editors.
ISBN
9783030827045 (electronic bk.)
3030827046 (electronic bk.)
9783030827038
3030827038
Published
Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 262 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-82704-5 doi
Call Number
K1241 .I57 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
346/.086
Summary
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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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 28, 2022).
Series
AIDA Europe research series on insurance law and regulation ; v. 5.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030827038
Part I - Insurance and the right to equal treatment
Discrimination Bans and Insurance Law
Discrimination in the Context of Parametric Insurance
Insurance and Discrimination in Canadian Law
Part II Insurance and the right to health
Health Reinsurance as a Human Right
The role of cooperatives and mutual health organizations in the extension of universal health insurance in Africa
Part III Insurance and the right to privacy
Big Data, Privacy and the Protection of the User of Autonomous Vehicles: Ethical Issues, Insurance Aspects and Human Rights
GDPR and processing of health data in insurance contracts: opening a can of worms?
Part IV Insurance and the right to life
Gambling on My Life and My Right to Live.
