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Published on: 5. May 2020

Company pension scheme: Company loses all its pension assets to insolvency administrator

– OLG Naumburg: Consultants are liable for losses and incorrect advice – Insolvency administrator draws company and private pension provision completely an investment broker and insurance brokers are happy to advertise company and private pension provision for entrepreneurs as “seizure-proof and insolvency-proof”. However, this is not the case, as a recent ruling by the […]

Published on: 14. January 20202. December 2020

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 […]

Published on: 9. January 2020

When revocation and/or amendment of a subscription right can fail

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, ruling of 25.09.2019, ref. IV ZR 99/18) had to deal with the life insurance of a policyholder (VN) who had fallen into a coma in 1993 after an accident. The wife, who was divorced in 1994, was entitled to withdraw her claim. The father of the UN informed the […]

Published on: 22. May 20192. December 2020

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. […]

Published on: 11. March 2019

No speculation with death by transfer of the life insurance

The Federal Supreme Court (BGH, ruling of 27 June 2018, file no. IV ZR 222/16) decided that to insure the life of another (the insured person, CP), the consent of this CP is also required at a later date. This applies not only to the original conclusion of the contract, but also if only the […]

Published on: 11. April 2018

Why are insurance agents and insurance brokers liable for underperformance?

The Social Court of Dresden (judgement of 09.03.2017, file no. S 39 VE 25/14) decided that if private provision by (accident) pension insurance coincides with pension entitlement under the Victims’ Compensation Act (due to a criminal offence suffered), partial crediting takes place. The victim’s pension of € 708 was reduced by about € 580 (part […]

Published on: 15. February 2018

Subscription right in direct insurance

On the liability of insurance companies, agents and insurance brokers for incorrect design on the part of the legislator Insurance brokers have always had a particularly heavy responsibility towards their customers. In the German Insurance Contract Act (VVG), the legislator has expressly defined the liability of the insurance intermediary in §§ 59 ff. VVG. […]

Published on: 24. May 20173. December 2020

Benefits to spouses and in the case of non-marital cohabitation are often recoverable

If donations are for the purpose of community protection, but are not gifts…. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, ruling of 6 May 2014, file no. X ZR 135/11) decided that donations to non-marital partners with the purpose of securing the death of the donor are not gifts. If the cohabitation fails, such donations must […]

Published on: 18. May 20173. December 2020

Tariff change brokers provide prohibited legal advice – but not always!

– 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 […]

Published on: 18. May 201711. January 2021

Personal insurance cancelled by guardian may be invalid

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 or the guardianship court. The widow, who had been appointed (revocably) as beneficiary in the event of death, successfully sued the […]

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