– Employer liability for defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, defined contribution plans with minimum benefit – Using sample calculations for illustration, employers and employees are usually promised exaggerated pensions and increases in the value of occupational pensions (bAV). The external providers of occupational pensions (insurers, Pensionskassen, pension funds) are the most closely monitored […]
– Pension capital transfer or change of policyholder – decision between plague and cholera – In purely statistical terms, the length of service of an employee is just under five years. If the employee has a pension plan, he or she will be able to take it with him or her to the new […]
– Why insurance contracts should be held by shareholders – For family entrepreneurs, the risk of insolvency has an annual probability of around 1%. Then an insolvency administrator takes over the management of the business, whereby a conflict is pre-programmed if the interests of the former managing director are different from those of the […]
What financial service providers need to pay attention to with regard to IBNR risk The impacts seem to be steadily approaching: More and more major losses are weighing on the claims statistics of financial services providers. The list ranges from K1-Fonds, Phoenix Kapital, to S&K, Infinus, as well as many other unnamed companies. As […]
– Whereupon in particular financial plant mediators in accordance with § 34 f exp. 1 GewO and intermediaries of financial services according to § 34 c GewO, as well as insurance brokers have to pay attention to – Currently, thousands and thousands of advisors and brokers are receiving notices from their asset protection liability […]
In the light of the judgement of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 22.05.1985 One can debate the issue, hold other legal opinions, or like us here, set a judgment as a reference point. We still consider the judgement to be trend-setting, because it describes the obligations which an insurance intermediary, in this […]
“The right has the curious property that you can keep it without having it.” (Joseph Unger) Particularly in the case of deferred compensation, it is advisable to choose a reinsured provident fund (U-fund) as the carrier in the company pension scheme (bAV). However, experts agree that this involves additional acquisition and administrative costs that are […]
– What are the scenarios of settlement in insurance due to low interest rates ? – Customers of life insurers are shaken: on 16.12.2014, the business press reported that a Swiss life insurer had now filed for insolvency, and had become a victim of low interest rates. The 13,000 policies were taken over by […]
– LegalLegal regulation of medical liability through the Patients’ Rights Act (PatRG) since 26.02.2013 – Up to more than 170,000 medical malpractice cases – without compulsory insurance? Experts estimate that there are up to more than 170,000 medical malpractice cases per year. Until the PatRG came into force, there was only case law on […]
If the company pension does not deliver what you were promised Every day we learn from politicians and the media that the statutory pension will at some point not be sufficient to maintain the accustomed standard of living in life after a professional career. Those of us who have taken out a company pension in […]
