At Belzuz Abogados, as expert lawyers in insurance law, we face different problems every day and we know that insurance law and civil liability are cross-cutting issues with points of...
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Jurisprudence on the statute of limitations in claims for work accidents
July 13, 2023
Damages caused by defective products
Damages caused by defective products. Its regulation in Spanish and European Law. Case law on the subject. At Belzuz Abogados (Insuralex Exclusive Member in Spain and Portugal) as expert lawyers...
June 28, 2023
Can the failure to challenge a document in a proceeding be qualified as professional negligence?
We will study whether the failure to challenge a document by the professional in charge of the lawsuit at the preliminary hearing may constitute professional negligence that must be compensated....
June 22, 2023
Parametric Insurance Round Table and Cocktail
Parametric insurance is a type of insurance in which the insurer pays the predetermined compensation to the insured based exclusively on the production and intensity of the risk, and not...
April 20, 2023
Proportional rule of Art. 10 Insurance Contract Act (LCS) versus termination of the contract by the insurer
Proportional rule of Art. 10 Insurance Contract Act (LCS) versus termination of the contract by the insurer In this article we will analyse the different options that art. 10 of...
March 2, 2023
The right to be forgotten and discrimination in contracting insurance
The European Union has urged Member States to regulate in their national legislation a right to be forgotten to ensure that consumers are not discriminated against when taking out insurance...
February 1, 2023
Right to be forgotten for cancer survivors
In February 2022, the European Parliament called on EU Member States to introduce a “right to be forgotten” for cancer survivors, in their Member State legislation by the end of 2025,...
December 15, 2022
2022 European Motor vehicle injury claim report
Personal claims coming from traffic accidents is another report by the European Insuralex group. Lawyers from several European countries have compared the different legal systems for personal claims from traffic...
October 27, 2022
Insuralex European Seminar & Cocktail
Insuralex and Belzuz Abogados S.L.P. have the pleasure of inviting you to the Insuralex European Regional Meeting 2022, which will consist of a seminar and cocktail at the Hotel Emperador...
October 10, 2022
Webinar FIDES & Insuralex: Insurance regulatory update in Latin America
FIDES (Federación Interamericana de Empresas de Seguros) has launched a report on insurance regulatory matters in the countries where FIDES has member insurer associations. FIDES represents 18 Latin American countries as well...
May 11, 2022
Inability to continue the family relationship as a basis for a motor vehicle insurance claim.
Claims arising out of motor vehicle accidents have been discussed by the insurance community and insurance lawyers for many years. Despite the fact that there has been some unification in...
April 26, 2022
Comments on the Supreme Court’s Judgement no. 129/2022, of 21 February 2022, of the Court of Social Affairs, cassation appeal no. 311/2019 on preconditions to exercise direct actions
We find ourselves before a case in which the party injured by some events exercises the direct action provided in art. 76 of the Spanish LCS and doesn’t prosecute the...
April 19, 2022
Manufacturer’s civil liability and state of the art at the time the product was put into circulation
We face a scenario that most likely could take place, especially nowadays, when the state of the art rapidly changes in short periods of time. Technical knowledge available under the...
March 8, 2022
Insuralex Report: Class Action systems in Europe
At the moment, there is quite a diverse legal landscape of different kinds of “class action” in Europe. While some countries do not provide a ‘class action system’ at all,...
February 3, 2022
Low-Cost insurances as a result of the Covid pandemic
Low-Cost insurances as a result of the Covid pandemic. ABSTRACT Currently, and as a result of the pandemic, a variety of low-cost policies has entered the healthcare insurance market, advertising...
December 16, 2021
Approval of the Royal Decree on training within the scope of insurance distribution
Latest additions to the Royal Decree on training in order to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97. A few weeks ago, the Council of Ministers in Spain approved the Royal Decree 287/2021,...
May 26, 2021
Civil liability, vaccination, and vaccines: a European and national perspective
We are currently living what can be considered the most important massive vaccination campaign in the recent history of humankind. Scientific advisors and governments from all over the world have...
March 16, 2021
The corporate group and the individual civil liability vs. joint and several liability
The civil liability that may arise within a specific company that is a part of the corporate group operating under one trade name, in many occasions raises questions when determining...
February 22, 2021
Cyber in the times of Covid-19: the cybercrime triad.
ABSTRACT: The exceptional situation that the world is living in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic has come with an increase in the exposure of companies and public institutions to...
May 15, 2020
Cyber-risk and cyber-insurance (II): silent cyber, an ongoing revolution?
ABSTRACT: cyber-risk is a source of opportunity but also of uncertainty towards traditional property and civil liability insurance policies. Cyber-insurance has been born to prevent silent cyber. We analyse the...
March 6, 2020
Cyber-risk and cyber-insurance in Spain: the necessary uncertainty.
ABSTRACT: Digitalisation is an unstoppable process that changes, day by day, the framework of interaction between citizens, companies and Public Administrations. Although the digitalisation simplifies recruitment processes and boosts the market,...
January 23, 2020
Highlights of the II Insuralex Latin American Insurance Conference in Madrid
The second annual Latin American Insurance Conference hosted by Insuralex and Belzuz Abogados in 2019 was a resounding success. The 2019 edition was attended by an important numbers of...
September 30, 2019
BELZUZ ABOGADOS SLP: PRODUCT LIABILITY IN A LOSS OCCURRENCE
Download in PDF October 20, 2016 PRODUCT LIABILITY IN A LOSS OCCURRENCE From the Insurance Department of Belzuz Abogados we shall analyse what are known as serial losses....
October 20, 2016
