VSH Broker Archives - Rechtsanwaltskanzlei München

Published on: 1. March 2017

Generation consultants, succession planners and financial planners together with initiators in conflict with the Legal Services Act

For decades there has been the training as Financial-Planner (financial planner), Estate-Planner (succession planner) and for some years now as Generation Consultant with IHK certificate. Surely only the trainers will make money from this for the time being. At second glance, it is a guide to the violation of the Legal Services Act (RDG) and […]

Published on: 23. August 20167. December 2020

Occupational pension provision: The imperative of equal value – void occupational pension provision?

bAV-Handelsblatt Forum: Invalidity of deferred compensation Dr.Reinecke, chairman of the pension senate at the Federal Labour Court (BAG), has dropped the bomb. Its core statement is that contracts for the implementation of occupational pension schemes can be (partially) null and void. Insurance intermediaries are surprised – have they been brokering ineffective contracts for years? The […]

Published on: 16. March 2016

Reduction of liability and plausibility check for investment advisors for closed-end fund offers – Part I

The liability risks of insurance brokers, investment brokers and consultants, but also of distributors and financial planners, differ depending on the customer (advice suitable for investors), capital investment (advice suitable for the property) or the risk involved (advice following property inspection and risk analysis). Obligation to disclose commissions – or reverse the transaction: This first […]

Published on: 20. March 201411. January 2021

Mega-risk in pecuniary loss liability: the time-limited subsequent liability

What financial service providers need to pay attention to with regard to IBNR risk The impacts seem to be steadily approaching: More and more major losses are weighing on the claims statistics of financial services providers. The list ranges from K1-Fonds, Phoenix Kapital, to S&K, Infinus, as well as many other unnamed companies. As […]

Published on: 12. December 2013

The pecuniary loss liability of the insurance broker and other financial service providers

What benefits the policyholder can expect from the insurer Passive insurance The aim of the insurance cover is to keep the policyholder free from liability obligations (BGH NJW 1967, 2203). This will also include claims for injunctive relief and removal pursuant to Section 1004 of the German Civil Code, for example in the case of […]

Published on: 16. October 201311. January 2021

Property damage liability: Risks in the event of reorganisation and termination of insurance cover

– Whereupon in particular financial plant mediators in accordance with § 34 f exp. 1 GewO and intermediaries of financial services according to § 34 c GewO, as well as insurance brokers have to pay attention to – Currently, thousands and thousands of advisors and brokers are receiving notices from their asset protection liability […]

Published on: 29. December 2010

Trained in liability

Because the market for private health insurance has become increasingly narrow, insurers are promoting poaching in other companies’ portfolios through training courses. The liability risk involved is downplayed. Few brokers are aware that the usual statutory minimum cover in VSH is often likely to be too low in view of the liability risk. The […]

Published on: 31. March 2008

A eulogy of some brokerage associations and their legal ineptitude

The free “insurance broker contract In recent decades, the call for standardized forms has led to brokers who are not legally trained to make use of “free samples of no value” – they are then often really free in the other sense of the word – namely in vain. A specimen similar to the “Verbandsmuster” […]

Published on: 21. March 2008

Controlling and distribution law: Increasingly large VSH gaps in the area of closed-end funds and investments

*by Johannes Fiala, Lawyer (Munich), Mediator (Univ.), MBA Financial Services (Univ.Wales), MM (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), EC Expert (C.I.F.E.), Lecturer (Univ. of Cooperative Education), Banker (www.fiala.de) Never do anything by halves, or you’ll lose more than you can ever recover. (Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician, 1900 – 1971) The VSH broker Ralf […]

Published on: 20. February 2008

Insurance brokerage contract: typical traps and invalid clauses

*by Dr. Johannes Fiala, Attorney at Law (Munich), MBA Financial Services (Univ.), MM (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), Lecturer for Civil and Insurance Law (BA Heidenheim, Univ. of Cooperative Education), (www.fiala.de) and Dipl.-.Math. Peter A. Schramm, expert for actuarial mathematics (Diethardt), actuary DAV, publicly appointed and sworn by the IHK Frankfurt am Main […]

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