The practice of marine insurance allowed late Medieval merchants to evaluate various of factors of risk involved in the sea trade, either structural or contingent, as can be shown through a detailed inquiry mainly based on the Datini archives in Prato. Although businessmen did not develop a notion of probability in a strict “statistical” sense, they made use of various levels of “probabilistic ...

The development of marine insurance has been imperative for the expansion of longdistance maritime trade. Without marine insurance, the Dutch Republic would not have been able to enlarge its trade networks and in all likelihood would not have prospered as it did in the early modern era. The emergence and early development of marine insurance in the Netherlands has been fairly well documented. T...

Comparative legal and normative analysis of the Serbian Civil Code provisions from 1844 (hereinafter referred to as SCC) on insurance contracts is subject this paper. Since it a tradition period restoration statehood struggle for fi nal liberation Ottoman Empire, SCC could not reflect achievements domestic theory case law. Jovan Hadžić, author Code, given his education positive law in Vojvodina...

BACKGROUND Significant underreporting of road traffic injuries by the police has been documented, even in developed countries. The objective of this study was to clarify the magnitude of underreporting of police data in Japan. METHODS Police reports were compared with those of the fire department and the Marine and Fire Insurance Association of Japan. RESULTS The results reveal significant ...

Background—Significant underreporting of road traYc injuries by the police has been documented, even in developed countries. The objective of this study was to clarify the magnitude of underreporting of police data in Japan. Methods—Police reports were compared with those of the fire department and the Marine and Fire Insurance Association of Japan. Results—The results reveal significant underr...