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 […]
– Case by case EUR 50,000, insolvency or three years for fraud or tax evasion – Social security clearing as a pernicious fraud scheme Already to 05.05.2006 took place in Munich the first symposium for the recovery (also allegedly) wrongly paid social security contributions for mediators of all kinds from the insurance industry. The […]
– Unlawful denial of benefits based on lack of medical necessity – Some employees of benefits departments in private health insurance are engaged in strategic claims settlement for potentially up to more than nine million private health insurance policyholders. This means that one ignores if necessary also the supreme court iurisdiction and by own […]
– Why life insurance has outlived its usefulness as a capital accumulation vehicle – Wim Duisenberg, ex-president of the ECB, when asked how he invests his money: “Personally, I’m in the fortunate position of having no reserves.” Statistically, up to more than 80 million German citizens own more than one life insurance policy. […]
– When claims settlements by insurance brokers and car insurers are flawed -. “There is also no rule according to which a certain speeding is insignificant,” formulated the OLG Frankfurt/Main in a recent ruling of 15.04.2014 (Case No. 15 U 213/13). The “too fast plaintiff” received a quarter of contributory negligence in the second […]
– 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 […]
– Possibilities of structuring pension assets in pension chambers – The Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate (OVG Rheinland-Pfalz, judgment of 26.05.2010, Case No. 6 A 10320/10.OVG) already dismissed the action of a doctor who wanted to have it established that his wife would later be entitled to a widow’s pension from the pension fund. […]
– Why the capital market with compound interest effect does not allow us to expect higher pensions – For years, insiders have been reporting difficulties in the pension funds in generating the promised returns to finance pensions. While the management of a Versorgungskammer used to pat themselves on the back year after year because […]
– When sellers, intermediaries and advisors are themselves in the fire in the case of insolvent investments – A well-known structural distributor was ordered to pay damages by judgment of 31.07.2014 (LG Frankfurt/Main, Case No. 2-32 O 154/13) because an investment advisor insufficiently informed about risks of a real estate fund. Structural distributors and […]
– How seizure of a bond provided by a third party can still result in taxes – The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, judgement of 22.07.2004, ref. IX ZR 132/03) recognises in constant jurisdiction that deposited penalty bonds and other security payments are attachable by creditors of the debtor. This applies both to the […]
