Compulsory insurance and compensation for bunker oil pollution damage
Provides a study on the concept of compulsory insurance. This book also looks at its purpose of ensuring compensation and its interrelations with other features such as the rule of strict liability and the limitation of liability under the convention, which was adopted following a diplomatic conference at the International Maritime Organization
Thesis, Dissertation, English, ©2007
Springer, Berlin, ©2007
Universität, Hamburg
doctoral dissertations
1 online resource (xvii, 242 pages)
9783540459033, 3540459030
185026831
Introduction; Pollution from Ships' Bunkers and the Advent of the Bunkers Convention; The Birth of Compulsory Insurance for Oil Pollution Liability; Strict Liability and Insurance; Insurance and the Quest for Adequate Compensation; Limitation of Liability and the Limit of Insurance; Direct Action against the Insurer and its Limited Effect; Outlook on Insurance and Compensation for Bunker-Oil Pollution Liability; Summary of Study