Dr. Johannes Fiala, Senior Partner of Fiala, Freisleben & Weber, Tax Consultant, Certified Public Accountant, Lawyer, Patent Attorney, Mediator, Munich Frank M. Strobelt, Managing Director of Gesellschaft für Stiftungsförderung e.V. (GfS) Further information: www.fiala.de, www.stifter.org. According to calculations by the Institute for Research on Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, more than 300,000 family businesses are facing […]
Out of sight, out of mind?
Many insurance brokers work with sales representatives. But what happens in terms of liability if representatives have given wrong advice but this only becomes known years after the separation? When brokers have sales representatives working for them, they should protect themselves from the liability consequences of giving false advice. There are several promising ways to […]
British liability traps
The past regularly catches up with many intermediaries: Leverage transactions with British life insurance policies are still frequently litigated in the courts. portfolio international spoke about this with lawyer Johannes Fiala. The issue of credit-funded UK life insurance has been a highly charged one over the past year. Are intermediaries off the hook three years […]
Swinging into the rating liability trap
What is the legal assessment of the involvement of the Scope Group rating agency with the fund initiator Interlife Management and the sales company Deutsche Konsortial? portfolio international spoke to the Munich lawyer Johannes Fiala. The sales expert warns against a possible contributory negligence of the sales department in the case of erroneous judgements of […]
Sales traps with U-cash registers
The collapse of the Adkura support fund shows how vulnerable occupational pensions remain today. There are large gaps in the safety net, which ultimately have to be covered by employers – who, in case of doubt, take the blame for the sales force. Once upon a time there was a U-Kasse in Ratingen, today you […]