英文摘要 |
Insurance in the modern society has changed from a purely contractual arrangement for transferring merchants trading risks into an institutional tool for transferring and managing risks faced by both businessmen and consumers. The insurance contract law is no longer purely commercial law, but reflects the characteristics of ''schizophrenia''. Legislators need to maintain free competition and innovation in the commercial insurance market and to provide consumers with necessary protection by setting mandatory minimizing protection norms in the same time. This fact has led to the emergence of a substantive group of consumer insurance norms, and even the appearance of an independent consumer insurance law. The latter has advantages both in the demonstration of legislative idea and in the design of specific systems and should be the best choice for China. Chinese legislator, therefore, need to build the substantive rights and obligations system for insurance consumers. However, the ordinary litigation procedures are not a good mechanism to enable consumers to get relief. Therefore, legislators should also set out to establish an ADR mechanism centered on the financial ombudsman to provide procedural guarantees for the realization of the substantive rights and obligations of insurance consumers. |