Study On Legal Problems Of Protection And Indemnity Insurance

P&I is the abbreviation for Protection & Indemnity Insurance P&I is a complementary, non-profitable, non-limited liability insurance which covers the risks including all the risks that ship-owners shall cover, except the part that the hull insurance has already covered. P&I insurance accommodates the external need of shipowners during the operation of the vessel, and thus exerts an enormous impact on the development of international shipping industry. P&I insurance greatly enriches the meaning of marine insurance; meanwhile, it profoundly challenges the current marine insurance legislation.This thesis is divided into four chapter except of introduction and concluding remarks. The first chapter is the summary of P&I, Introducing P&I insurance generation and development. Today in the development process of P&I insurance is still existing many problems.The second part of the thesis is the introduction of P&I club and the discussion about it. The author discuss this part according to the contrasting development situation of British and American countries and the actual situation in our country.In the third chapter, the author analyses the legal character of P&I insurance contract and its law application. He discusses the legal character of P&I insurance contract from the general to the particularity and then makes it clear. After that, with studying the foreign laws, he analyses the law application of P&I insurance contract in our country.The last part is the summarize of the whole thesis. It's mainly about how to resolve the problem caused by P&I insurance contract in our country. And the author shows his proposal on the modification of legislation.