Good Faith in Insurance and Takaful Contracts in Malaysia

Haemala Thanasegaran is Senior Lecturer with the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University, Australia. She has taught primarily international trade law, business law, Malaysian income tax law, and Malaysian company law, amongst other subjects. Her research interests are in insurance and takaful (Islamic insurance), and legal culture and contracts (with an emphasis on comparative law).

Preface.- Foreword.- Chapter 1 - Introduction.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Background.- 1.3 Objective and Scope.- 1.4 Structure.- Chapter 2 - Duty of Utmost Good Faith.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The Meaning of and Juridical Basis for the Duty .- 2.3 Continuing Nature of the Duty of Utmost Good Faith.- 2.4 Application of the Duty of Utmost Good Faith.- 2.5 Reciprocal Duties.- 2.6 Scope of Insurer’s Duty of Utmost Good Faith.- 2.7 Scope of Insured’s Duty of Utmost Good Faith.- 2.8 Remedies for Breach of the Duty of Utmost Good Faith.- 2.9 Conclusion.- Chapter 3 - Pre-contractual Duty of Disclosure and Misrepresentation.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Development and Application of the Pre-Contractual Duties in the United Kingdom.- 3.3 Development and Application of the Pre-Contractual Duties in Malaysia.- 3.4 Conclusion.- Chapter 4 - Post-contractual Duty of Good Faith and Claims Settlement.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Application of the Law in the United Kingdom.- 4.3 Development and Application of theLaw in Malaysia.- 4.4 Conclusion.- Chapter 5 - Utmost Good Faith and Takaful in Malaysia.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 The Juridical Basis of Takaful.- 5.3 Takaful Models in Operation.- 5.4 The Development and Regulation of Takaful in Malaysia.- 5.5 Conclusion.- Chapter 6 - Law Reform From a Social Science Perspective.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Legal Culture.- 6.3 Legal Structure.- 6.4 Legal Substance.- 6.5 Measuring Legal Culture.- 6.6 Intra-National or Ethnic Culture.- 6.7 Effect of Legal Culture on Structure and Substance.- 6.8 Conclusion.- Chapter 7 - Conclusion.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Proposed Reforms.- 7.3 The Role of Economic Efficiency.- 7.4 Viability of Proposed Reforms.- 7.5 Conclusion.- Appendix - Financial Mediation Bureau of Malaysia’s Claims Statistics.