– Why optional tariffs and more are nevertheless being extended by health insurance companies – The BSG judgement of 30 July 2019 (file number B 1 KR 34/18 R) has shown that the problem of the optional tariffs offered by the health insurance funds, for example for abroad, optional services in hospitals or supplementary dental […]
– When is liability for damages and reimbursement of remuneration regularly incurred ? – The Regional Court (LG) Saarbrücken decided in its judgement of 17.05.2016 (Az. 14 O 152/15) that the search for savings possibilities with existing private health insurance (PKV) is not directed at the proof or mediation of an insurance contract, § 204 […]
On 15 July 2015, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued a statement on foreign private health insurance (PKV), including considerable legal errors. Here now part 2. High risk for European health insurance intermediaries from 2016″? In addition to the legal errors already mentioned (we already reported in Part 1), there is a risk for […]
– Supervision-free alternatives to private health insurance – I. Distinction from insurance business subject to prudential supervision A widespread – and erroneous – view is that anything that somehow falls within the scope of insurers’ activities must be insurance subject to licensing. Even very obvious examples show that this obviously cannot be the case. For […]
