My excellent podcast with Alex Tabarrok on puzzles in the economics of insurance markets, https://t.co/eVG3CfBrNE, this was the conversation I wanted to have...#MarginalRevolutionpodcast
Did you miss our October 24 Insurance Law Workshop? Prof. @RickSwedloff presented "Insurers as Contract Influencers," co-authored with Prof. @HoffProf, exploring how insurers shape boilerplate terms in consumer contracts. The session recording is now available on YouTube. | 1/2
Did you miss our October 24 Insurance Law Workshop? Prof. @RickSwedloff presented "Insurers as Contract Influencers," co-authored with Prof. @HoffProf, exploring how insurers shape boilerplate terms in consumer contracts. The session recording is now available on YouTube. | 1/2
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But, insurers don't push change where they don't cover. And don't always push cleanly. We explore all of that with respect to boilerplate!
Check it out: we'd love your comments: https://t.co/F4BUE5C2oF
In a new paper, @HoffProf and I explore whether insurers are influencers in the contract world. Are insurers doing something to encourage the adoption of litigation defeating boilerplate?
https://t.co/F4BUE5C2oF
A story in GIFs:
But there are limits to the story-in line with a counter literature about whether insurers influence (led by @Dschwarcz and Ken Abraham)-insurers want changes, if it helps their bottom line. We add to that literature too.
Boilerplate could be low-cost advice, with high impact.