Comments on the regulation of the insurance contract in the draft Civil Code project of the National University of Colombia

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to examine some relevant aspects of the regulation of the insurance contract included in the project of a new Civil Code, which were presented by the National University of Colombia. It was found that the project is unilinear in relation to the insured client, which leads to positive aspects such as the guidelines to interpret the insurance contract and the expansion of the evidence to prove its existence, but at the same time, it represents challenges that must be reviewed like the definition of the insurance contract and the elimination of the characteristics of said contract. The work identifies existing challenges and proposes solutions to issues that are currently a cause for concern.