Insurance law

Insurance law is one of the branches of law thatarose in connection with the need for legal consolidation of the relationship between the insured and the insurer. Before determining the subject and method of regulating this industry, it is necessary to define "insurance".

This relationship is aimed at protecting the interestsphysical persons and legal entities of the Russian Federation or subjects of the Russian Federation, its municipal formations that arose in connection with the insured event due to monetary funds formed by insurers from insurance premiums and other funds.

The specificity of insurance relations is that,that they arise on the basis of the law of probability, since insurance companies provide insurance protection of events that, although they may occur, but when and where they occur, what damage will be caused is not known.

The concept of

The insurance law is a system of norms created forregulation of relations on the formation of funds and their use from the insurance fund to protect the property interests of individuals and legal entities by compensating for harm caused by the occurrence of an insured event or other predetermined event that has had a negative effect on the personal and property sphere of the insurer.

Subject of insurance law and methods

These are such social relations that arose between the insured and the insurer in connection with the implementation of insurance and protection for it.

The insurance law combines imperative anddispositive methods. So, for example, the imperative method (compulsory execution of prescriptions) is used in Part 1 of Article 390 of the Civil Code, which contains the norm that the insurance contract must necessarily be in writing. The discretionary method (it is possible to choose) is used, for example, in part 3 of article 943 of the Civil Code, where it is indicated that the parties to the contract can agree on changes to certain provisions in the insurance rules.

System

The insurance law system consists of 2 parts: general and special. The first contains the norms created for the regulation of all institutes of insurance law: terms, principles, licensing of insurance activities, its state regulation. The second includes the regulation of certain types of insurance:

• business risks;
• property;
• personal;
• bank deposits;
• medical
• and etc.

Insurance law and its principles

These include:

• availability of insurance interest. It must be at the conclusion of the contract or at the time of the insured event. Risk of liability and loss of property can not be objects of insurance. The list of interests in which insurance is not allowed is listed in art. 928 of the Civil Code;
• risk insurance. Payments are made for an insured event that may not occur;
• equivalence. For a certain period of time, the economic equality of the amount of insurance premiums and the amount of compensation paid after the insured event must be achieved;
• the highest confidence of the parties. Means, that at the conclusion of the contract they must disclose all the circumstances that may matter;
• payment of insurance compensation. This means that the insurer must compensate the damage in the amount of the actual loss incurred, that is, return the injured insured to the original financial position;
• the presence of a causal link between the loss and the event that caused it. It is the most important in compensation of damage. The consequences should come as a result of the insurance event.

Sources of information

The insurance law is based on legal acts of various levels. Sources: Constitution, Civil Code, Law on the Organization of Insurance in the Russian Federation, government decrees, presidential decrees and others.