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Liability insurance is a principle that the insured exercise the insurer insurance claims if an accident insurance should be occurs. But if this principle is strictly applied, the victim of an accident insurance will not get full compensation when perpetrators of the accident insurance become insolvent state. To solve this problem, our revised 「Commercial Code」 article 724 section 2 was the provision of the victim's own claim for insurers in order to strengthen the protection of victims. However, Our theories and cases of Supreme Court are two kinds of interpretation such as insurance claims and claims for damages, because this provision only stipulates the victim's own claim and does not reveal the legal nature. Initially after the amendment, theories and cases of Supreme Court adopt a contrary view and has been interpreted increasingly as a claim for damages after Supreme Court ruled insurance claims in since November 1997 up to date. German removed the controversy about the legal nature of the claim directly, by the 「Insurance Contract Act 2009 amended」 article 115 section 1 was the provision of victim's claim damages. Orthodoxy and the case of Supreme Court also has been interpreted as a claim for damages in France. Japan also has provisions of victim's claim damages if a car insured in compulsory liability insurance cause damage. But The United States and Britain has been interpreted as victims exercise on behalf of insurance claims of the insured, because the victim's own claim is not recognized in liability insurance. In a foreign country, opinion on the legal nature are divided such as our opinions. But our 「Commercial Code」 not clarify the legal nature unlike legislation of Germany, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. And the judgment of the Supreme Court has a problem of that the basis of claim is not clear. Therefore, I would like to seek legislative amendment for problems raised in interpretation of 「Commercial Code」 article 724 section 2 after reviewing the discussion in foreign countries and Korea.