Why insurers are not advocates for their clients?

Bavarian solution for business closures (BSV) of innkeepers is mostly unappealable “Panic Professor: the virus needs a host. So let’s close down all the economies: Basta!” “One person – one problem! No man – no problem!” (Stalin)   Settlement with insurer (VR) on business closure insurance (BSV) invalid? A prestigious insurance law firm and a […]

Training liability in insurance, capital investment and bank sales

Why training and sales managers are personally liable in private health insurance sales. An analysis by attorney Dr. Johannes Fiala and mathematician Peter A. Schramm.   Landauf Landab insurance brokers, independent financial service providers and bank advisors complain that at sales events held by trainers, they actually only experience positive product features through colourful pictures, […]

Systematic change of status from insurance agent to broker

– How can legal assistance after a house search also have a mitigating effect? – An insurance tied agent may seek advice from a management consultancy, for example, analyse his stocks in order to improve his sales – provided that the regulations on data protection and professional secrecy are observed, § 203 StGB. Creative broker […]

Federal Supreme Court prohibits insurance consultants from charging contingency fees for changing tariffs in private health insurance

– How the insurance consultant with a second job may do exactly this and more nevertheless –   Insurance brokers as well as insurance consultants are allowed to offer policyholders (VN) in private health insurance (PKV) at the change of tariff according to the new tariff. § Section 204 of the German Insurance Contract Act […]