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Published on: 18. May 2017

Insured in the statutory health insurance without minimum premium payment

Self-employed persons with a very low income can apply to pay less than the so-called minimum contribution to the statutory health insurance (GKV). But Dr. Johannes Fiala and Dipl.-Math. Peter A. Schramm think that you have to come up with this on your own, because hardly anyone will tell you voluntarily. What the tariff change […]

Published on: 18. May 2017

How the broker may also have duties of protection against third parties – Part 2

A lack of documentation already leads to courts deciding to the detriment of the insurance broker, even reversing the burden of proof. This problem may still have to be compensated in individual cases by a constantly uncertain witness evidence. A major problem is the so-called secondary burden of proof, which has been required by courts […]

Published on: 18. May 20173. December 2020

Liability for missing documentation, even in case of correct advice: Part 1

A recent ruling of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne of 26.02.2016 (Case No. 20 U 102/15) underlines the “obligation of the broker to inform the policyholder that the intended change to private health insurance (PKV) may affect the insurance cover of his or her spouse and the financial burdens associated with it”. The spouse […]

Published on: 16. May 2017

Errors in advice on the tax savings model for the Rürup pension

Why the mediation of the basic pension almost certainly leads to the liability of the intermediary. The Rürup pension was sold millions of times as a tax-saving model. As a matter of course, savings by paying insurance premiums in the savings phase are then precalculated by the agent or broker. However, if documentation has […]

Published on: 16. May 2017

Occupational disability insurance: half-empty or half-full

Concrete or abstract reference – or both? Any such general distinctions in occupational disability insurance (BU) are ultimately not conducive to classifying concrete insurance conditions according to them. However, there can be transitions, theoretically e.g. in the case of an initial inspection different from that of a subsequent inspection. And no one forbids the […]

Published on: 9. March 2017

Would you have known? Even criminals are entitled to BU benefits!

Even offenders sometimes apply for benefits under an occupational disability insurance policy. In an exclusive commentary, attorney Johannes Fiala and actuary Peter A. Schramm explain how these are to be legally classified – and when insurers are obliged to pay benefits. What are the effects of insurance conditions of the occupational disability insurance (BU), […]

Published on: 7. February 2017

When time value accounts lead to criminal prosecution and employer liability

Time value accounts (ZWK) are used to shift social insurance and payroll tax contributions into the future. Such ZWK arrangements are not recognised for tax purposes in the case of members of the management boards of public limited companies and managing directors of private limited companies, as the Federal Minister of Finance clarified (letter dated […]

Published on: 12. January 20177. December 2020

High tax relief for the committed citizen

Foundations offer the entrepreneur far-reaching advantages The state explicitly acknowledges the commitment of donors with generous tax breaks and benefits related to the law of public benefit. Even if it is not always comprehensible to outsiders at first glance that the charitable trust foundation in particular offers attractive advantages for citizens and efficient solutions to […]

Published on: 16. December 2016

Opportunities for a reduction in contributions or a return to statutory health insurance

– What the tariff change broker never reveals and rarely knows – A recent study by a lobby organisation proposes to make statutory health insurance (GKV) more attractive for lower earning self-employed persons, as reported by a newspaper from Southern Germany. For self-employed persons there would be a minimum contribution of 342 euros per month. […]

Published on: 7. December 2016

What the tariff change broker never reveals and rarely knows

The Ministry of Economic Affairs has submitted a draft bill to transpose the EU Insurance Distribution Directive IDD into German law. Accordingly, the ban on commissions remains in force and in future there will be “fee-based insurance consultants The SHI system should become more attractive for the self-employed. In the guest article, attorney Dr. Fiala […]

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