1st Edition

Commercial Insurance Law Emerging Trends and New Perspectives

Edited By Barış Soyer Copyright 2026
338 Pages
by Informa Law from Routledge

338 Pages
by Informa Law from Routledge

For commercial organisations, certainty and stability are essential. Yet unexpected events—and shifting economic or geopolitical conditions—frequently pose serious risks. One of the most effective tools for mitigating such risks is insurance. This edited volume explores key developments in commercial insurance law, examining both doctrinal issues and their relationship with real-world market... Read more

PART I- MARINE INSURANCE—EMERGING AND PRACTICAL ISSUES

 CHAPTER 1- Direct Claims against Marine Insurers

Neil Henderson

CHAPTER 2- From Salvage to Wreck Removal -- The Uncertain Transition from H & M to P & I Richard Sarll 

CHAPTER 3- The 2023/24 Red Sea Attacks- Highlighting the Blurred Lines of War (Risks)

Michael Biltoo

CHAPTER 4- Great Lakes Insurance SE v Raiders Retreat Realty Co.:

The United States Supreme Court Addresses Marine Insurance for the First Time in Almost Seven Decades

Michael F. Sturley

CHAPTER 5- Interpreting Excluded Perils in Marine Insurance: Insights from the China Maritime Court

Rui Zheng and Jinlei Zhang 

Part II - SPECIALIST COVER AND OTHER DOCTRINAL ISSUES

CHAPTER 6- UK Directors and Officers Liability Insurance Policies — Observations on 21st Century Developments

Richard Eveleigh

CHAPTER 7- SME Insurance – A Different Beast in Need of Different Treatment?

Barış Soyer and Jia Wang

CHAPTER 8- Duty of Fair Presentation under the Insurance Act 2015- The Development of Law Peter MacDonald-Eggers KC 

CHAPTER 9- Fraud in Commercial Insurance: The Legal Response

Nichola Warrender KC 

Part III - TECH AND INSURANCE

CHAPTER 10- Navigating the Edge of Regulation: How Decentralised Insurance Uses DAOs, Fiduciary Duties and Discretionary Mutual to Manage Risks

George Leloudas and Angela Nicholas

CHAPTER 11- Insurance Brokers and AI

Gary Meggitt          

Part IV - THE AFTERMATH—LEGAL ISSUES EMERGING FOLLOWING A LOSS

CHAPTER 12- Subrogation and Assignment: Why the Distinction Matters in Insurance

Andrew Tettenborn

CHAPTER 13- The Co-Insured’s Subrogation Immunity- How to Express It and Now to Draft the Underlying Contract to Make Sure It Arises 

Özlem Gürses

CHAPTER 14- Anti-assignment Clauses and Insurance

Simon Baughen

Biography

Professor Barış Soyer is the Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (Swansea University) and author/editor of several books published in the fields of maritime and insurance law.

Professor Andrew Tettenborn and Professor George Leloudas, also of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University, serve as consulting editors to this book.