Legal restriction to the surrender value in the event of revocation of life insurance policies is contrary to EU law

– Current ECJ ruling opens up reversal with perpetual cancellation right also for new life insurance policies since 2008 –   The bang of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) The European Court of Justice ruled (ruling of 19 December 2019, ref. C355/18, C-357/18, C-479/18) that a provision in insurance contract law according to which […]

Pension funds are not allowed to withhold health insurance contributions on private pension part

– This leads to further legal disputes about the “correct” determination of contributions –   The Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG, decisions of 27.06.2018, ref. 1 BvR 100/15, 1 BvR 249/15) decided that benefits from a pension fund (PK) – which are based on contributions made privately by the employee – are not subject to any […]

Company pension scheme Managing Director

Company pension scheme Managing director and shareholder-managing director

Loss of company pension scheme for managing directors in the event of insolvency The company pension scheme has increasingly become the focus of public interest in recent years due to changes and adjustments in pension policy. Politicians are increasingly shifting the issue of pensions into the personal responsibility of employees and employers, which means that […]

How direct insurance policies can be seized by creditors and insolvency administrators

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, ruling of 24.06.2015, file no. IV ZR 411/13) has already decided that the direct insurance policy of a shareholder-managing director can be seized despite an irrevocable subscription right with reservation of revocation until the so-called vesting with the GmbH, even in the event of his termination due to insolvency. […]

When real estate becomes junk real estate

How do banks and insurance companies finance usuriously overpriced real estate? Scrap real estate is a topic for up to more than two million affected investors. The Investors’ Council says: “Only invest in investments that you understand yourself”. This applies to the timing of investments and the ongoing monitoring of capital investments. More often, experts […]

How trust in the occupational pension scheme can be destroyed

Falsification and concealment of balance sheets are punishable under § 331 No. of the German Commercial Code (HGB). Famous examples of such manipulations would be the Olympus and Enron companies, or more recently P&R. The “Heubeck mortality tables RT 2018 G” (dated 20.07.2018) were allegedly erroneously prepared and later withdrawn – this was the responsibility […]