Asset protection: How managers and entrepreneurs try to protect their property You manage million amounts and your decisions have a major impact on the economy, employees and your own company. The managers and entrepreneurs of our time are rewarded for this responsibility with high salaries, profit-sharing and attractive share packages that are more than above […]
The BGH has decided that – completely independent of the revocation – a claim for damages can also be sufficient for the reversal of a life insurance policy – oh for contracts concluded from 2008 onwards. In its current ruling of 28 June 2017 (Case No. IV ZR 440/14), the Federal Court of Justice […]
The Higher Regional Court of Cologne (OLG Köln, judgement of 02.09.2016, file no. 20 U 201/15) forbade a life insurer to charge Riester customers double acquisition costs – once costs with a maximum rate of 2.5 percent (previously 4.0 percent) of the premium volume spread over five years, and in addition further costs over the […]
The German Federal Supreme Court (BGH, ruling of 22 July 2015, file no. IV ZR 437/14) decided that the declaration of the insurance customer “the widowed spouse” as the beneficiary is to be interpreted in such a way that “the spouse married to the policyholder at the time of the declaration of the subscription right […]
“If you have faith, it’s all over.” (Stanislav Lec, Polish poet) Asset protection is the separation of business and private risks or assets, including the integration of insurance protection. Risks to private assets stem primarily from the business sector (e.g. liability for break-through) or from financing, but also from separation/divorce or legal disputes. […]
Insolvency risks – Authority to provide legal services – Insurance cover Occupational pensions are an important component of retirement provision. They obtain their complex position in the German legal system through the interdisciplinary interaction of the most diverse fields of law, which can easily become a liability trap for legal and tax advisors; the numerous […]
– Why Run Off is an issue for all life insurers -. All life insurance companies are largely in run off. This is because, with the exception of parts of the portfolio with the current guaranteed interest rate and unit-linked business, all other insurance contracts are actually just being wound up. because it’s closed to […]
– On the design of insurance products in Europe – Brokers’ brokerage fees and agents’ commissions will fall as a result of the Life Insurance Reform Act (LVRG) – but at the same time there will be a shift in life insurance away from one-off to ongoing remuneration for agents. This is what Stuttgarter […]
The disclosure of commissions not only affects all types of insurance (Versicherungsbote reported), but probably also the entire commissions agreed with the insurer by the respective sales company. Accordingly, the disclosure of commissions could also hit broker pools and structured sales networks such as Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG) hard. Johannes Fiala drew attention to this aspect. […]
