Why you should cancel an insurance policy After taking out an insurance policy, there are Insured persons have two options contractual relationship with your insurer to terminate the contract: On the one hand, the contract can be terminated – like any contract- under Compliance with the legal deadlines informal and on the other hand, it […]
Corona-related plant closures: The insurances When the authorities decided to close the restaurantsat the end of March 2020, many restaurateurs were sure that this would be a clear case for the business closure insurance schemes. Business closure insurance is a catering industry and hotel industry as well as in all food-processing companies or companies operating […]
– Why the waiver of full BSV benefits at the expense of the Employment Agency is void – Short-time work compensation (KUG) is a relief for employers – a business aid to keep employees available for the rapid ramp-up of operations after the crisis. An application to the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA) […]
When is the cancellation of a life insurance policy by a guardian invalid? And what about other personal or property insurance? The OLG Nuremberg (partial judgment of 24.03.2016, ref. 8 U 1092/15) ruled, using the example of a life insurance policy, that termination by the guardian is invalid for lack of approval by a counter-guardian […]
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 […]
The policyholder is insolvent and urgently needs money. There would be the possibility to sell the right to his private pension. How the framework for this is set and when a transfer can fail, describe attorney Dr. Johannes Fiala and actuary Peter A. Schramm in their contribution “The ordinary right to a private pension could […]
Since a decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 19 December 2013 (Case C-209), insurance customers are increasingly checking whether they can still revoke their insurance policies. The aim is to recover the insurance premiums paid or to unwind insurance policies with negative returns. Insurance companies have often failed to adequately and effectively […]
When the revocation of life, pension and other insurance policies can be worthwhile Since a decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 19 December 2013 (Case C-209), insurance customers are increasingly checking whether they can still revoke their insurance policies. The aim is to get back the insurance premiums paid or, in […]
The “knowing breach of duty” coverage gap. It is estimated that every fifth (1) liability case ends with the finding that the tax consultant/auditor (StB/ WP) has no insurance cover at all or insufficient insurance cover in terms of the amount in the pecuniary loss liability insurance (VSH) for the relevant loss. German insurers […]
By Dr. Johannes Fiala and Thomas Keppel Reader A. S. asks: In the July 2007 issue of BC, I read with great interest the article on occupational pension provision and the employer’s obligation to offset losses in the case of deferred compensation. Subsequently, I invited our insurance agent for a discussion. He informed me, among […]
