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Marine Insurance Law


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Chapter 6

The premium

Özlem Gürses


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The premiums are paid to the insurer in consideration for the policy coverage provided. Lawrence J defined insurance in Lucena v Craufurd1 as ‘a contract by which the one party in consideration of a price paid to him adequate to the risk, becomes security to the other that he shall not suffer loss, damage, or prejudice by the happening of the perils specified to certain things which may be exposed to them'.

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