INSURANCE LAW
SVM Rechtsanwälte advise their clients, including notable insurance companies, in issues of both primary insurance and reinsurance law. Our main focuses are on the area of non-life insurance law in both the private and commercial and industrial sectors, including the recourse of the property insurer, liability law even for the medical professions, and health, life and occupational disability insurance. A special fund of experience exists in the field of reinsurance treaty law. Also, the law firm has in recent years been increasingly involved in agency law and associated competition-law questions. The firm has a special section for insurance law. In the area of health and occupation disability insurance, cross-disciplinary advice is ensured by having a special section for medical law and, in the area of marine/transport insurance, by having a special section for transport and forwarding law.
We offer advice specifically in the fields of:
- Resident building and home contents insurance (fire, hailstorm, windstorm, burst pipe, water damage, burglary and robbery insurance, and insurance against natural hazards)
- Commercial and industrial insurance (transport, contents, loss-of-profits, machinery, specie and other all-risks insurance)
- Recourse of non-life insurer
- Reinsurance law
- Liability insurance
- Life insurance
- Health insurance
- Disability insurance
- Law of insurance intermediaries and brokers