In recent years, foreign insurers have increasingly sought to enter the German market – in a variety of ways: In September 2013, for example, BaFin counted a total of 216 branches and branch offices of foreign institutions in Germany. The GdV reported at the end of September 2013 that primary insurers whose head office is […]
As of January 31, 2023, transposition into national law (draft bill of April 20, 2022) is to make it easier for domestic companies to merge with foreign (European) companies, including transfer of the registered office abroad. In return, company pensioners can then be deprived of the protection of the German #Pensionssicherungs #Vereins aG (PSVAG) in […]
– Why everything is never insured against every conceivable risk – When an insurer describes its product as “all-risk insurance”, this sometimes resembles the advertising promise of “guarantee certificates”: A close examination of the policy terms and conditions may reveal it to be “marketing cheese with massive holes” in the insurance coverage Coverage […]
– Opportunities and risks for policyholders and their insurance brokers – Foreign insurance companies, especially those from the European Economic Area (EEA) and the European Union (EU), are increasingly competing with domestic suppliers. For insurance intermediaries and insurance customers, this creates risks, but also opportunities. Regular notification procedure EEA and EU insurers must […]
Your lawyer for tax law: How we support our clients in the tax jungle German tax law is one of the most complex tax systems in the world, even if the often quoted story of the most comprehensive tax literature in the world is probably a bourgeois Moravia. As Attorney for tax law we offer […]
More wealth in a planned and controlled manner The own assets in a planned and future-oriented management as well as value-enhancing and risk-optimized investment requires the highest degree of Knowledge and time. Not everyone who has achieved a certain level of wealth is also a financial or controlling expert , so it is advisable to […]
In some city archives historians find records of an annuity purchase – like these. What is behind it and what does it mean for us? Since then In the 13th century, the purchase of annuities was the predominant credit business of the Middle Ages. The future pensioner bought the right to receive a life […]
– Liability traps and gaps in coverage in the daily sickness benefit insurance – In its ruling of July 6, 2016 (Case No. IV ZR 44/15), the Federal Court of Justice decided that regulations in the model terms and conditions (Section 4 IV MB/KT 2009) which regulated a compulsory reduction of the insured daily sickness […]
Sanctions have been in fashion for centuries, and are being broken. The widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin, in reaction to Napoleon’s Russian campaign, was concerned with the embargo imposed by the Russian Tsar on French products in 1812. The widow hired a Dutch ship, had it loaded with over 10,000 bottles of the 1811 vintage, and was […]
Lawyer Dr. Johannes Fiala and Dipl.-Math. Peter A. Schramm have in the third part even more examples of what effects sanctions can have. Frequent tax evasion without sanctions-Deluxe The BGH (judgement of 30.01.1970, file no. V ZR 139/68) denied – completely in the tradition of the Reich Court – foreign (camouflage) companies with […]
