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The Limits Of Regulation By Insurance, Kenneth S. Abraham, Daniel Benjamin Schwarcz Jan 2022

The Limits Of Regulation By Insurance, Kenneth S. Abraham, Daniel Benjamin Schwarcz

Indiana Law Journal

Insurance is an enormously powerful and beneficial method of spreading risk and compensating for loss. But even insurance has its limits. A new and misleading aspiration for insurance—that it also can and often does substitute for or significantly complement health and safety regulation—is increasingly in vogue. This vision starts from the uncontroversial recognition that insurers typically adopt measures designed to counteract “moral hazard,” the tendency of insurance to blunt policyholders’ incentives to take care. But proponents of this vision go on to contend that the risk-reducing potential of insurance is significantly more extensive than is traditionally imagined, because insurers are …


Mandatory Tax Penalty Insurance, Michael Abramowicz Oct 2020

Mandatory Tax Penalty Insurance, Michael Abramowicz

Indiana Law Journal

In a mandatory tax penalty insurance regime, taxpayers would be required to find insurers to certify portions of their tax returns. A certifying insurer would be subject to a governmental auditing regime insurers of randomly selected filings would pay an amount equal to the inverse of the selection probability multiplied by the underpayment, or they would receive money from the government in the case of overpayment. The insurers function as private auditors with no incentive to underestimate their customers' tax liability. Such a regime will consume real resources, ultimately paid by taxpayers, and thus should not be imposed universally. But …


Fee-Shifting Statutes And Compensation For Risk, Maureen Carroll Oct 2020

Fee-Shifting Statutes And Compensation For Risk, Maureen Carroll

Indiana Law Journal

A law firm that enters into a contingency arrangement provides the client with more than just its attorneys’ labor. It also provides a form of financing, because the firm will be paid (if at all) only after the litigation ends; and insurance, because if the litigation results in a low recovery (or no recovery at all), the firm will absorb the direct and indirect costs of the litigation. Courts and markets routinely pay for these types of risk-bearing services through a range of mechanisms, including state feeshifting statutes, contingent percentage fees, common-fund awards, alternative fee arrangements, and third-party litigation funding. …


The Promises And Pitfalls Of Harmonization: What Insurance Guarantee Schemes Tell Us About When Harmonization Works, Jordan Burton Jan 2018

The Promises And Pitfalls Of Harmonization: What Insurance Guarantee Schemes Tell Us About When Harmonization Works, Jordan Burton

Indiana Law Journal

In Part I, this Note considers the mechanisms of harmonization and the regulatory and fairness policy concerns that harmonization is designed to address. Part II explores some of the problems harmonization can create, with an eye toward how those problems manifest in the IGS context. Finally, Part III discusses how IGS address an urgent and inevitable problem that affects actors in the insurance market at every level. By analyzing comments on the Commission’s White Paper, Part III proposes that these three factors—convergence of stakeholder interest, inevitability, and urgency— are key to understanding when member states, EU citizens, and industry actors …


Insuring Corporate Crime, Miriam Hechler Baer Jul 2008

Insuring Corporate Crime, Miriam Hechler Baer

Indiana Law Journal

Corporate criminal liability has become an important and much-talked about topic. This Article argues that entity-based liability-particularly the manner in which it is currently applied by the federal government---creates social costs in excess of its benefits. To help companies better deter employee crime, the Article suggests the abolition of entity-wide criminal liability, and in its place, the adoption of an insurance system, whereby carriers would examine corporate compliance programs, estimate the risk that a corporation's employees would commit crimes, and then charge companies for insuring those risks. The insurance would cover civil penalties associated with the entity's employee-related criminal conduct. …


Insurance-Weight Of Evidence-Construction Of Policy-Proximate Cause Jan 2000

Insurance-Weight Of Evidence-Construction Of Policy-Proximate Cause

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Insurance Discrimination Against Battered Women: Proposed Legislative Protections, Ellen J. Morrison Jan 1996

Insurance Discrimination Against Battered Women: Proposed Legislative Protections, Ellen J. Morrison

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


State Insurance Takeover Acts: A Constitutional Analysis After Edgar V. Mite, Christopher Keele Apr 1984

State Insurance Takeover Acts: A Constitutional Analysis After Edgar V. Mite, Christopher Keele

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Indiana's Allowance Of Punitive Damages In Contract Actions Against Insurance Companies: How New Is It?, Susan Marguet Apr 1980

Indiana's Allowance Of Punitive Damages In Contract Actions Against Insurance Companies: How New Is It?, Susan Marguet

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Defining Taxable Consumption: A Comment On Personal Insurance Premiums, William D. Popkin Apr 1979

Defining Taxable Consumption: A Comment On Personal Insurance Premiums, William D. Popkin

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Administrative Control Of The Terms Of Insurance Contracts: A Comparative Study, Spencer L. Kimball, Werner Pfennigstorf Jan 1965

Administrative Control Of The Terms Of Insurance Contracts: A Comparative Study, Spencer L. Kimball, Werner Pfennigstorf

Indiana Law Journal

A related article published in this journal, Kimball and Pfennigstorf, Legislative Control of the Terms of Insurance Contracts: A Comparative Study, 39 IND. L.J. 675 (1964), examined legislative and judicial control of the provisions of insurance policies. Ideally, it would have been better to publish all aspects of control of insurance policies in one article, but length as well as complexity necessitated division of the subject matter. The reader who wishes a more complete picture of public control of the terms of insurance contracts should consult the earlier article and other available literature.


Legislative And Judicial Control Of The Terms Of Insurance Contracts: A Comparative Study Of American And European Practice, Spencer L. Kimball, Werner Pfennigstorf Jul 1964

Legislative And Judicial Control Of The Terms Of Insurance Contracts: A Comparative Study Of American And European Practice, Spencer L. Kimball, Werner Pfennigstorf

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


"Accident" And "Accidental Means" In Indiana Apr 1961

"Accident" And "Accidental Means" In Indiana

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


An Introduction To The Law Of Community Property, Allen C. Steere Oct 1947

An Introduction To The Law Of Community Property, Allen C. Steere

Indiana Law Journal

Address delivered at the Annual Meeting of The Indiana State Bar Association at Evansville, Indiana, September 5, 1947.


Insurance Jul 1947

Insurance

Indiana Law Journal

Indiana Legislation, 1947


Contracts, Sales, Insurance, Henry B. Witham Apr 1946

Contracts, Sales, Insurance, Henry B. Witham

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Function Of Insurance Lawyers, E. W. Sawyer Apr 1945

The Function Of Insurance Lawyers, E. W. Sawyer

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Indiana State Bar Association Program, Carl M. Gray Oct 1943

Indiana State Bar Association Program, Carl M. Gray

Indiana Law Journal

New Bar Program


Coverage Of Auto Theft Policy Aug 1941

Coverage Of Auto Theft Policy

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Insurance


Severability Of Insurance Contracts Apr 1941

Severability Of Insurance Contracts

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Insurance


Insurance-Presumption Of Survivorship Aug 1938

Insurance-Presumption Of Survivorship

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Insurance-Accidental Means Distinguished From Accidental Result-Sunstroke Jan 1935

Insurance-Accidental Means Distinguished From Accidental Result-Sunstroke

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Insurance-Recent Constructions Of Conditions In Policies Jun 1930

Insurance-Recent Constructions Of Conditions In Policies

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Insurance-Rule Of Construction-Classification Of Risks May 1930

Insurance-Rule Of Construction-Classification Of Risks

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Motion To Make More Specific-Res Gestae-Continuance-Proof Of Insurance Apr 1930

Motion To Make More Specific-Res Gestae-Continuance-Proof Of Insurance

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.