Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
A contract
• Insurer
• Insured
• Indemnify a thing from risk
Contract of insurance
A contract of suretyship
shall be deemed to be an insurance contract, within the meaning of this Code,
only if made by a surety who or which, as such,
is doing an insurance business as hereinafter provided.
(b) The term doing an insurance business or transacting an insurance business, within the meaning of
this Code, shall include:
1. Insurable interest
2. Risk of loss or damage
3. Designated peril as a cause
4. Consideration/premium
5. Risk distributing scheme
Characterstics
Contract of adhesion
Synallagmatic – dual obligations. Insured pays. Insurer is obligated to protect even when event does not
arise
Pre-need plans
1. Education
2. Pension
3. Life memorial
1. Life - Every contract or undertaking for the payment of annuities including contracts for the
payment of lump sums under a retirement program where a life insurance company manages or
acts as a trustee for such retirement program shall be considered a life insurance contract for
purposes of this Code
a. Includes annuities
b. Problematic because annuities are payouts when one dies. No life insurade
c. Industrial life – employer pays. Empoyer is agent of insurer
d. Kinds
i. Whole life – pay regularly
ii. Limited payment plan – pay in specific period
iii. Term plan – plan is for specific period subject to renewal
iv. Pure endowment plan – face value paid at survival. If insured dies before expiry,
no liability
v. Endowment plan – payment if insured lives or dies at period
2. Marine –
a. Vessels, craft, vehicles, good
b. Person or prop in connection with marine
c. Precious stones
d. Bridges, tunnels piers instrumentalities to transpo
e. tpl
3. Fire – fire, lightning, windstorm, tornado or earthquake and other allied risks when covered
4. Casualty - tpl
5. Suretyship – guarantee performance of obligation
Other modes