M05 Insurance law – Introduction /Revision Day

This one-day workshop for up to 12 delegates is ideal for anyone taking this compulsory CII Diploma subject by mixed assessment and multiple-choice exam, or for anyone who wants to refresh their knowledge of insurance law generally. The course is open to both starters and more advanced students.

Topics to be covered include:

• Tactics for effective study and suggested further reading,
• identifying, recalling and using key legal precedents & statutes
• Common Law, Equity & Statute, EU law and
• how laws are created and interpreted,
• Legal Persons – who can insure, sue and be sued?
• principles of old and new insurance law, including
• disclosure, insurable interest & policy clauses and terms
• principles of tort, contract, agency,
• nervous shock, foreseeability, economic loss,
• composite and joint covers, proximate cause,
• The Insurance Act 2015 – fair presentation, remedies & warranties etc.
• indemnity, reinstatement, subrogation & contribution,
• setting these ideas into profitable underwriting and
• correct acceptance, adjustment or reasoned rejection of claims,
• layout, style and techniques for strong written assessments,
• preparing for and techniques for passing multiple choice exams plus
• any other areas troubling delegates!

Delegates will receive in advance an electronic pack of Rod’s study materials, including exemplar assessment and exam questions plus Rod’s 100+page guide to studying, understanding and passing M05 insurance law.

The morning session will cover some of the above technical subjects and then look at written assignment techniques. In the afternoon, after some further technical topics, the workshop will cover how to tackle the multiple-choice exam by working through a sample exam paper together, as far as time allows.

Attendance is free for CII members; non-members will be charged a fee to attend the day (price on application to admin@ciireading.co.uk).