Construction All Risks Insurance

Construction All Risks Insurance offers comprehensive analysis of Construction, Engineering and Erection All Risks (CAR) insurance as understood in English Law. It is essential for construction and insurance lawyers and other professionals, contractors and developers and their insurers. It contains detailed, practical advice for all those dealing with CAR coverage and claims, and for those involved in disputes in this area.

• Sets out the basics of CAR insurance, explaining its historical development
• Covers the structure of a modern standard CAR policy
• Explains formation and placing of CAR insurance
• Discusses the interpretation of CAR policies, giving practical drafting advice
• Explains the law relating to rectification, fortuity, loss and damage
• Examines the wide range of exclusions that can apply to CAR policies
• Deals with extensions to cover including Advance Loss of Profits and Public Liability
• Includes precedents of standard insuring clauses in construction contracts
• Goes through the claims procedure, including detailed discussion of the processes and potential problems that can face practitioners once a claim has been made
• Provides a comprehensive analysis of the difficult areas of causation and coinsurance
• Looks at other types of All Risks insurance including marine, property and aviation