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
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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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