Insurance

The growing insurance team of ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN (currently approx. 15 lawyers at all office locations) provides comprehensive advice to our domestic and international clients in all matters of insurance law. Our firm has many years of experience and specialised expertise in all areas of insurance law, specifically in maritime and transportation law. We do not just provide our clients with legally sound and innovative advice, we also include economic and entrepreneurial considerations.

The insurance industry is currently and for the foreseeable future in a state of significant change, inter alia, due to technical evolvement (keyword: digitalisation) and the regulatory environment (e.g. Solvency II, IDD). A change naturally offers opportunities but also creates major challenges for market participants. We as the insurance team at ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN serve our clients by shaping this change, but also advise on all traditional legal issues that the insurance industry has to deal with.

In regards to content, our advice focuses on the following areas:

Judicial and extra-judicial as well as arbitration advice and representation in the context of insurance cases
Claims management in complex national and international insurance cases
Recourse actions
Development and market introduction of new insurance products and special cover concepts
Review of conditions
Monitoring of transactions in the area of insurance law (e.g. run-off and real estate transactions)
Insurance supervision law
Insurance distribution law

Our advice focuses on the following insurance sectors:

Maritime and transportation insurance and related insurances in other sectors such as maritime hull, internal hull, yacht hull, aircraft hull, goods/goods insurance, risk of protection & indemnity, loss of earnings/loss of hire/freight, kidnap & ransom, shipyard liability, inland waterway liability, charterer´s liability, forwarding insurance/traffic liability insurance, stock carrier liability, aircraft liability
Property Insurance and technical insurance, incl. business interruption insurance
General and special liability insurance (including product liability, architectural liability insurance, IT-liability)
Financial lines (including D&O insurance, W&I insurance)
Specialty lines (such as cyber insurance)
Personal insurance (disability and accident insurance)