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Paper: The Lawyer
11.11.2017

Free at Last? A Contract for the ‘Professional Insured’

In June 2017 the Swiss Federal Council has adopted the dispatch to the Parliament on the amendments of the Insurance Contract Act (ICA). Christian Casanova provides in this briefing an overview on the most important changes. Of particular interest in the insurance of large commercial risks is the envisaged exemption from the regime of mandatory provisions for the so-called ‘professional insureds’.