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Fracturing and bundling risks: the coverage expectations of the 'real' reasonable policyholder

Fracturing and bundling risks: the coverage expectations of the 'real' reasonable policyholder
Fracturing and bundling risks: the coverage expectations of the 'real' reasonable policyholder
In interpreting insurance contracts, legal systems will often make reference to the expectations of the reasonable insured. The extent to which this has justified bending, and sometimes breaking, the words of the text differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. This paper proposes an addition to this debate: what if we reflected on the 'real' reasonable person, and not merely the judicially framed legal fiction? Should we use the developments in behavioural science to determine what consumers actually understand?
1934-3736
118-169
Davey, James
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Davey, James
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Davey, James (2013) Fracturing and bundling risks: the coverage expectations of the 'real' reasonable policyholder. Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy, 11 (1), 118-169.

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In interpreting insurance contracts, legal systems will often make reference to the expectations of the reasonable insured. The extent to which this has justified bending, and sometimes breaking, the words of the text differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. This paper proposes an addition to this debate: what if we reflected on the 'real' reasonable person, and not merely the judicially framed legal fiction? Should we use the developments in behavioural science to determine what consumers actually understand?

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Published date: 2013
Organisations: Southampton Law School

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Local EPrints ID: 374355
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/374355
ISSN: 1934-3736
PURE UUID: 7b176e4a-6058-44ad-afa8-60f2e3d238b8
ORCID for James Davey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0748-1404

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