Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage

Incessant and ascendant increases in the interest to adopt Shariah concepts in commercial transactions has encouraged business entities including contractors to employ Shariah compliance products. Currently, contractors are inclined to employ Contractor’s All Risks (CAR) Takaful to insure their work...

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Main Authors: Mohd Fauzi, Puteri Nur Farah Naadiah, Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
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Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/1/Paper.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/2/Cert_presenter.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/3/2._Table_of_Content.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/10/SP2_%282%29.pdf
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spelling iium-494422018-06-21T04:39:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/ Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage Mohd Fauzi, Puteri Nur Farah Naadiah Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin BP173.77 Islam and work HG8011 Insurance TH Building construction TH9025 Protection of buildings. Including protection from dampness, fire, burglary Incessant and ascendant increases in the interest to adopt Shariah concepts in commercial transactions has encouraged business entities including contractors to employ Shariah compliance products. Currently, contractors are inclined to employ Contractor’s All Risks (CAR) Takaful to insure their works during construction. Upon any occurrence of specified risks to the construction works, contractors may submit claims and the monies received therefrom would be utilized to recover the damaged works. However, past studies claimed that the practice in assessing claims in takaful has deficiency in terms of its legitimacy from the Shariah perspectives. The current practice in assessing claims for construction works loss and damage lack of transparency and accountability with absence of standard guideline. Consequently, a study was conducted with the key objective to identify legitimacy from the Shariah perspectives in assessing claims for construction works loss and damage. The methodology used for the study combined three (3) key data sources, which are (i) review on primary religious documents i.e. Quran and hadith and practice of the assessments of construction takaful claims in Malaysia; and (ii) semi-structured interview with eight (8) experts in the fields of takaful and insurance, construction industry, and Shariah knowledge areas. The outcome of the study suggests that (i) there are various methods used by the experts in assessing claims for construction works loss and damage, and (ii) the current practice in assessing takaful claims for construction works loss and damage do not adhere fully to the requirement of the Shariah. This paper is expected to produce a summary of the legitimacy from the Shariah perspectives in making assessment for construction works loss and damage. Further research is recommended in order to develop a Shariah compliance standard procedures for the assessment of takaful claims for construction works loss and damage. 2015-11-12 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/1/Paper.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/2/Cert_presenter.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/3/2._Table_of_Content.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/10/SP2_%282%29.pdf Mohd Fauzi, Puteri Nur Farah Naadiah and Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin (2015) Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage. In: 14th Management in Construction Research Association (MiCRA 2015) Conference and Annual General Meeting, 12th-13th Nov. 2015, Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED) International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). (Unpublished)
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English
English
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topic BP173.77 Islam and work
HG8011 Insurance
TH Building construction
TH9025 Protection of buildings. Including protection from dampness, fire, burglary
spellingShingle BP173.77 Islam and work
HG8011 Insurance
TH Building construction
TH9025 Protection of buildings. Including protection from dampness, fire, burglary
Mohd Fauzi, Puteri Nur Farah Naadiah
Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin
Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage
description Incessant and ascendant increases in the interest to adopt Shariah concepts in commercial transactions has encouraged business entities including contractors to employ Shariah compliance products. Currently, contractors are inclined to employ Contractor’s All Risks (CAR) Takaful to insure their works during construction. Upon any occurrence of specified risks to the construction works, contractors may submit claims and the monies received therefrom would be utilized to recover the damaged works. However, past studies claimed that the practice in assessing claims in takaful has deficiency in terms of its legitimacy from the Shariah perspectives. The current practice in assessing claims for construction works loss and damage lack of transparency and accountability with absence of standard guideline. Consequently, a study was conducted with the key objective to identify legitimacy from the Shariah perspectives in assessing claims for construction works loss and damage. The methodology used for the study combined three (3) key data sources, which are (i) review on primary religious documents i.e. Quran and hadith and practice of the assessments of construction takaful claims in Malaysia; and (ii) semi-structured interview with eight (8) experts in the fields of takaful and insurance, construction industry, and Shariah knowledge areas. The outcome of the study suggests that (i) there are various methods used by the experts in assessing claims for construction works loss and damage, and (ii) the current practice in assessing takaful claims for construction works loss and damage do not adhere fully to the requirement of the Shariah. This paper is expected to produce a summary of the legitimacy from the Shariah perspectives in making assessment for construction works loss and damage. Further research is recommended in order to develop a Shariah compliance standard procedures for the assessment of takaful claims for construction works loss and damage.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohd Fauzi, Puteri Nur Farah Naadiah
Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin
author_facet Mohd Fauzi, Puteri Nur Farah Naadiah
Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin
author_sort Mohd Fauzi, Puteri Nur Farah Naadiah
title Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage
title_short Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage
title_full Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage
title_fullStr Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage
title_full_unstemmed Shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage
title_sort shariah compliance assessment of construction takaful claims for loss and damage
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/1/Paper.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/2/Cert_presenter.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/3/2._Table_of_Content.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49442/10/SP2_%282%29.pdf
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