Brief History of Fire Insurance & Some Basic Principles

This video provides a brief history of fire insurance and discusses discusses certain basic principles of fire insurance- utmost good faith and insurable interest. 

The video is Part II of Lecture I on Fire & Consequential Losses Insurance (IC 57). Part I can be accessed from here. The subject is based on the syllabus of the Insurance Institute of India, Mumbai. The video lecture series are aimed at helping the students of the Insurance Institute of India to understand various concepts of Insurance in a better manner.

Those wanting to download the audio alone can do so from the blog's Soundcloud page.

Those interested in the powerpoint presentation on the topics dealt in the video can access it from the Blog's Slideshare page. The presentation of the first video is available here.

For those who wish to delve deeper into the history of fire insurance, see the below articles:

• R. Evans, The Early History of Fire Insurance, 8 The Journal of Legal History, 88-91
  Rawlings, Philip, The Great Fire of London and the Origins of Fire Insurance: A Brief Note (October 24, 2016). Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 246/2016. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2858259

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Basics of Fire Insurance

This video introduces readers to the basics of fire insurance in India. 

The video is Part I of Lecture I on Fire & Consequential Losses Insurance (IC 57). The subject is based on the syllabus of the Insurance Institute of India, Mumbai. The video lecture series are aimed at helping the students of the Insurance Institute of India to understand various concepts of Insurance in a better manner.

Those wanting to download the audio can do it from the blog's Soundcloud page.

Those interested in the powerpoint presentation on the topics dealt in the video can access it from the blog's Slideshare page.

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About this Blog

This purpose of this blog is to teach the students of insurance, especially those of the Insurance Institute of India, about the general insurance industry as prevailing in India. The lectures hosted in the Youtube channel of the Blog and linked in this blog relate to various aspects of general insurance.

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