Download This PaperThe European Legal Expenses Insurance Market
Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Etudes et Dossiers No. 359
22 Pages Posted: 13 Feb 2011
Date Written: April 2010
Abstract
The paper develops some preliminary considerations about the European legal expenses insurance market and, in the light of the emerging EU collective litigation, it introduces the case of the litigation buyout insurance, a policy that has been adopted under certain circumstances by corporate defendants and their insurers to afford the coverage for current or prospective mass litigation in the United States.
Keywords: Legal expenses insurance, Collective redress, Litigation buyout policy, ATE, BTE
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Poncibo', Cristina, The European Legal Expenses Insurance Market (April 2010). Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Etudes et Dossiers No. 359 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1757926 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1757926
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