Key words
Liability Insurance, IWETO-code: S137 Insurance Law
Objectives
The student acquires the necessary basic knowledge and a legal insight in the most important civil liability insurances for both private individuals and companies.
Starting from a theoretical structure and a legal basis we aim at both a theoretical and practical education.
We make use of applications, examples and cases in order to accomplish this.
Topics
1. Insurances civil liability, private life: study of the risks in relation to the private life
2. Insurances civil liability, enterprises: study of the risks in relation to the professional life- Civil liability exploitation
- Entrusted goods
- Civil liability after deliverance of goods, services or actions
3. Insurances civil liability motor vehicles: analysis of policy and techniques of claim settlement
4. Professional civil liability - insurances
Prerequisites
Prescience about Civil Liability.
Final Objectives
Knowledge
Job-related (specific):- Knowledge of the specific legislation and regulation of the most important liability insurances concerning civil rights both for private individuals and companies
- Knowledge of the professional literature and the technical terminology of liability insurances
- Knowledge of the carriers of information and instances that collect information: libraries, multimedia
- Knowledge of the liability insurance, their possibilities and limitations
- Knowledge of the techniques of risk management in relation to both the private and professional life
- Knowledge of the professional unions and organisations
- Knowledge of the topicality and the evolutions in the field of study
Skills
General:- Thinking and reasoning power
- Being critical
- Work independently
- Decisiveness
- Updating knowledge
- Consulting sources
- Acquiring and assimilating information
Job-related (general):- Ability to argue
- Organising (analysing, outlining and drawing up a hierarchy) of information
- Follow up the evolution in the fields of study
- Ability to interpret and apply job-related guidelines
- Distinguishing problems
- Ability to think in an analytical and problem-solving way
- Thinking logically
- Insight in complex situations
Job-related (specific):- Inform and give advise to clients in the field of liability insurances
- Compare the products and give advice in accordance with the economic, legal, fiscal and social situation of the client
- Follow the quickly evolving legislation in the field of insurances, tax law and law and check whether the information is correct, complete and up-to-date
- Translate texts of a law into ready-to-use information
- Collect, process, store and use relevant information
- Respect terms and comply strictly with made arrangements
- Indicate correctly the rights and duties of both parties in a contract
- Ability to mark out the liabilities of both private individuals and companies
- Come to conclusions quickly
Attitudes
General:- Client-oriented
- Being critical
- Being creative
- Precision and accuracy
- Inquisitiveness
- Self-confidence
Job-related (general):- Co-ordination with others
- Result-oriented
- Working systematically
- Inquisitiveness, continuously updating knowledge
- Independence - ability to work independently
Job-related (specific):- Ability to handle judicial information
- Ability to be selective in that information
- Sense for completeness
- Having an eye for details
- Distil goal-oriented or relevant information
- Keeping up of professional literature
- Eagerness to learn continuously
- Willingness to go deeply into a problem
- Willingness to gain advice yourself
- Being critical towards one's own conclusions
Materials used
Syllabus "Verzekeringen BA"
Study costs
Syllabus at the unit price determined under Hogeschool rules.
Study guidance
The student can ask the lecturer questions.
Guided self-study is provided.
Teaching Methods
Lecture activated with analysis, legislation, jurisdiction, cases and topical subject matters and guided self-learning with a paper.
Assessment
- First exam session: oral exam 70% and continuous assessment 30%
- Second exam session: oral exam 100%
Students only enrolled for taking the exams:- First exam session: oral exam 70% and individual assignment 30%
- Second exam session: oral exam 100%
Lecturer(s)
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