A Critical Analysis Of The Requirements Of Insurable Interest Under The Nigeria Law Of Insurance

CHAPTER ONE                                  NATURE AND DEFINITION OF INSURANCE 1.0            INTRODUCTION Risk and uncertainty are incidental to life. Man may meet untimely death. He may suffer from accident, destruction of property, fire, floods, earthquakes and other natural calamities. Whenever there is uncertainty, there is risk as well as insecurity. People always want to avoid the financial consequences of these risks e.g replacing personal property that is lost or damaged. Insurance exists because risk exists. Insurance cannot remove the risk or the likelihood that one might become a…