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Cases and Materials on Insurance Law

10th Edition
Leo P. Martinez | Douglas R. Richmond | Max Helveston
ISBN: 9781636598758
Subject: Insurance Law
Format: Print - Hardbound
Page Count: 985
Copyright: 2025 | Status: In Stock
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This Tenth edition of Insurance Law adds Dean Max Helveston as a coauthor. Drawing on his initiative, the authors added more than 30 real-life problems that require students to apply the principles of insurance law discussed in each chapter. These significant additions to the text recognize that an important part of the development of a lawyer is the ability to analyze facts, to apply the law to unique facts, and to provide cogent advice to clients. The problems are designed to build and refine these skills. The goal is to allow students to appreciate how insurance law works in practice and how it operates in a variety of settings.

This Tenth Edition also brings students and instructors up to date with contemporary insurance law principles. It adds nine new cases, which mostly supplant cases in the Ninth Edition, on issues ranging from waiver to judicial review of first-party bad faith claims to insurers’ right of recoupment to proof of loss requirements. As before, the aim has been to keep the text compact so that it remains an apt vehicle for teaching insurance law. The authors refreshed the material without stinting on coverage. The authors also preserve the sense of the deleted material in the notes that follow the cases. In this way, nuance can be conveyed in the differences between the old and the new.

As always, other developments are incorporated in the Tenth Edition. For example, the bad faith provisions of the Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance and the states’ reactions to the Restatement have been augmented in Chapter 5. The notes in each Chapter have also been updated with case references and secondary material that reflect cutting edge changes in the field. Finally, there has been some reordering of material in some of the chapters to provide for a more logical flow. All in all, the authors endeavored to make the Tenth edition a better teaching text.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 06/19/2025

Leo P. Martinez, UC College of the Law, San Francisco

Douglas R. Richmond, Texas A&M University School of Law

Max Helveston, DePaul University College of Law

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Every chapter has been updated with new discussion, new material, and cases. Significantly, the Tenth Edition of Insurance Law includes the addition of more than 30 problems that require students to apply the principles of insurance law discussed in each chapter. The goal is to allow students to appreciate how insurance law actually works in practice and how it operates in a variety of settings. The following changes are also noteworthy:

  • Updated discussion of the bad faith provisions of the Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance and the states’ reactions to the Restatement.
  • Nine new cases on issues ranging from waiver to judicial review of first-party bad faith claims to insurers’ right of recoupment to proof of loss requirements.
  • New discussion of liability insurers’ duty to defend.
  • New introductory narrative section at the beginning of chapter 5 outlining three fundamental issues relating to bad faith liabilities.
  • New discussion on the importance of the underlying facts of alleged liability.

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