2nd Edition

Chinese Insurance Contracts Law and Practice

By Zhen Jing Copyright 2026
1298 Pages
by Informa Law from Routledge

1298 Pages
by Informa Law from Routledge

Chinese Insurance Contracts: Law and Practice was the first systematic text written in English, offering a critical analysis of the major principles, doctrines and concepts of insurance contract law in China. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the many developments within both professional and research environments since its original publication, this second edition also features two new... Read more

1. Introduction to insurance and China’s insurance industry  2. The Chinese legal system and the Insurance Law  3. The regulation of insurance  4. Formation of an insurance contract  5. Terms of contracts and construction of the terms  6. Premiums  7. Insurable interest  8. The insured’s duty of disclosure and representations  9. The insurer’s pre-contractual duty of good faith  10. Increase of risk during the insurance period  11. Double insurance and contribution  12. Causation  13. Risk prevention and loss mitigation  14. The making of a claim  15. Settlement of claims  16. Fraudulent insurance claims  17. Subrogation  18. Modification and rescission of insurance contracts  19. Property insurance  20. Life and accident insurance  21. Liability insurance  22. Motor vehicle insurance  23. Reinsurance  24. Marine insurance  25. Insurance intermediaries  26. Insurance disputes resolution  Appendix 1: The Insurance Law of the People’s Republic of China  Appendix 2: The Maritime Code of the People’s Republic of China

Biography

Zhen Jing is Professor and Chair in International Commercial Law at the Institute of International Law within the School of Law at Wuhan University, China, Professor Emeritus of Law at the School of Law, Bangor University, and Visiting Professor at the School of Law, Reading University. She has taught Insurance Law for more than 20 years in the UK and in China and has practical experience in the Chinese insurance industry. She is also the author of The Regulation of Insurance in China (2021).