– 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 […]
– When insurance brokers and agents are liable for the uninsured like insurers -. The German Insurance Association (GDV) puts the insured losses from the flood disaster in July at around €7bn. However, for damages that are not insured in whole or in part, the liability of the insurance intermediary, who often provides “support”, […]
– Redemption risks for insurers, agents and insurance brokers – The perpetual right to rescind or cancel insurance contracts By judgment of 19.12.2013 (Case C-209/12), the ECJ ruled that a right to withdraw from a life insurance contract is perpetual if the policyholder has not been properly and timely informed of this right. Contrary […]
– 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 […]
– 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 […]
– Products and concepts for formerly licensed intermediaries, brokers, tipsters and advisors – Investors lose up to more than €40 billion every year because they did not really understand the financial products sold to them – or were the victim of fraud. It is typical that even formerly unsuspicious competence bearers or their financial […]
– When structures for asset protection and succession planning are ineffective – Banks and insurance companies, as well as financial advisors from Germany and abroad, are praising foreign camouflage constructions via prospectuses and appraisals. This should make it practically possible for assets of 100,000 euros or more to constitute a secure succession arrangement by circumventing […]
– Why policyholders wrongly go away empty-handed in whole or in part in the event of a claim – In the past, many customers were notified of changes to the General Insurance Conditions (AVB) that were invalid. In some cases, the insurers (VR) were forbidden by the courts, under threat of punishment, to refer […]
– How the state can ensure the efficiency of retirement planning for the middle class – After 31 years of work, average earners will only receive a basic pension (social welfare level, with up to less than 758 euros per month) – low earners would have to work 63 years in social security for […]
– Why there are hardly any recommendable domestic products left for insurance intermediaries – The group of self-employed consists of about 1.2 million freelancers and about 3.0 million tradesmen. The freelancers are predominantly Compulsory members of one of the more than 90 pension funds or pension chambers. There, however, funded savings are proving to be […]
