If providers of group insurance contracts, such as associations and companies, pursue their own monetary interest with their offer, they may require registration as insurance intermediaries. How group insurance policies can be designed and, if necessary, alternatives can be created, even if the intermediary license according to § 34 GeWo is missing. Insurance company […]
Insurance law: inform in good time Nowadays, there is almost no aspect of life that cannot be covered by a insurance. The field of insurance law is broadly diversified and applies both in the area of private provision and in corporate risk minimization. Many insurances are almost regarded as basic equipment for a “carefree” life. […]
– Why optional tariffs and more are nevertheless being extended by health insurance companies – The BSG judgement of 30 July 2019 (file number B 1 KR 34/18 R) has shown that the problem of the optional tariffs offered by the health insurance funds, for example for abroad, optional services in hospitals or supplementary dental […]
The Federal Court of Finance (BFH, ruling of 07.12.2016, file no. II R 1/15) decided that when the policyholder (VN) provides insurance cover for any insured person (VP), the full, non-aggregated sales price counts as the assessment basis for the insurance tax (VSt): The prerequisite for this is that the insurer (VR) participates in the […]
– How can insured persons react to the increased risk of insolvency? – Up to more than one million English life insurance policies (with-profit products) are to be transferred to Ireland. However, on closer inspection it is completely unnecessary to leave Great Britain (GB) for the existing policies. Existing contracts need not be […]
Assets are protected from the insolvency administrator – in the event of death the situation is different: The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, ruling of 08.12.2016, ref. IX ZR 257/15) ruled that the general and insolvency-independent waiver of surrender of the (residual) assets of a provident fund (UK) for occupational pension provision (bAV) can be […]
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On 15 July 2015, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued a statement on foreign private health insurance (PKV), including considerable legal errors. Here now part 2. High risk for European health insurance intermediaries from 2016″? In addition to the legal errors already mentioned (we already reported in Part 1), there is a risk for […]
When maybe only 100,000 euros are secured and the rest becomes a restructuring profit for the bank…. The Financial Market Authority cannot prevent the insolvency of credit institutions, securities trading houses or insurance companies. For securities trading companies, the maximum compensation obligation is 90% of up to EUR 20,000. In the past, there was […]
– Why pension products are good to sell even with zero returns – Numerous rulings of the higher courts prove that the insurance intermediary himself has to prove that he has given correct advice when brokering an insurance product if his customer specifically claims that he has given incorrect advice and the documentation does not […]
