Alternative investments

How to protect your assets Where to put all that money? An admittedly somewhat gloating question that will certainly only concern a portion of our readership, but could be all the more valuable for them. Cash is dead, long live cash. Not only since the current inflation (2022) of more than 7%, we are noticing […]

Cologne Higher Regional Court: Premium adjustments in private health insurance often ineffective!

– OLG Cologne judges generally usual procedure of the PKV as inadmissible –   In its judgment of 20 July 2012 (Case No.: 20 U 149/11), the Cologne Higher Regional Court ruled that a procedure used for decades by private health insurers for premium adjustments was incorrect. As a result, many premium adjustments since 1995 […]

Variable loan interest rate – bank overcharges by around a quarter of a million

– Special bank for doctors and pharmacists agrees ineffective interest cap clause –   Numerous bank customers pay overdraft interest on their current account for years because their credit institution charges them too much interest on their loans. Legal and calculation errors occur en masse at some institutions – and occasionally lead to the bank […]

Books / Technical articles

Publications – Technical papers Fiala/Schramm, Insolvency risk of British life insurers when relocating to Ireland, ExpertenReport, issue 7/2019, pages 60-62 Fiala/Schramm, When are insurers no longer obliged to pay benefits or can reduce benefits?Expert Report, issue 3/2019, pages 56-58 Fiala/Schramm, No insurance coverage in case of refusal to pay protection money, ExpertenReport, issue 11/2018. Pages […]

Attorney Tax Law Munich

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 […]

Insolvency law

Insolvency is rarely a disgrace Insolvencies of large and small companies are almost part of the daily news agenda. Terms likeinsolvency practitioner, reorganization, creditor or insolvency proceedings are familiar to everyone. However, we know from practice in our firm that very few people are aware of the exact meaning of a insolvency or insolvency proceeding. […]

Interest fraud with system

How banks and credit institutions earn money with incorrect interest calculations We Germans are known beyond our national borders for our preference for cash and savings books. In a European comparison, we are the undisputed number one with a savings rate of approx. 17 %. Our confidence in saving seems to be unshakable and despite […]

What is the value of an endowment policy?

Book: The Accounting of Insurance Contracts under IFRS: An Economic Analysis by Sylvia Heller   Link: https://books.google.de/books?id=fyHYDJGP3OwC&pg=PA257&lpg=PA257&dq=%22Fiala/Schramm%22&source=bl&ots=Do860anFzx&sig=93E86Gg4vvvxJqEcuyxsXcbf0hk&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq4crWz6PSAhUqIpoKHb4_DTMQ6AEIUjAN#v=onepage&q=%22Fiala%2FSchramm%22&f=false or in http://www.buch.de/shop/home/suche/?fq=3899367952  

Generation consultants, succession planners and financial planners together with initiators in conflict with the Legal Services Act

For decades there has been the training as Financial-Planner (financial planner), Estate-Planner (succession planner) and for some years now as Generation Consultant with IHK certificate. Surely only the trainers will make money from this for the time being. At second glance, it is a guide to the violation of the Legal Services Act (RDG) and […]

PKV: Impossible escape from rising premiums

There are many factors contributing to inflation in private health insurance. For example, charges for cross-subsidisation for the basic, standard and emergency tariffs. Those who have concluded their private health insurance before 01.01.2009 can also change to the standard tariff – the others only to the basic tariff. The lack of the insurer’s (VR) right […]