Insurance / Re-insurance

Playing it safe where risks are involved.

LEBUHN & PUCHTA has renowned specialists in the law of commercial insurance and re-insurance, insurance brokerage and insurance supervision.
We advise our clients in all areas of commercial insurance and re-insurance, especially on the Scandinavian and London insurance markets, e.g. on property insurance, liability insurance, D&O insurance and business interruption insurance. We advise and assist our clients in drawing up terms of insurance. Our insurance practice is known particularly for defending claims both in and out of court, and for asserting claims in complex, often cross-border, high-value insurance cases (e.g. marine casualties, aviation accidents, serial damage, insured occurrences covered by fire and project insurance, yacht hull damage, business interruptions, closure of businesses in connection with the CoVid 19 pandemic).
- We have acted for fire insurers in legal proceedings to defend claims arising out of a major fire at a recycling plant.
- We have advised clients in connection with brokers’ liability following a denial of cover by the insurers.
- We have provided comprehensive advice in relation to the establishing and licencing of a new German insurance company.
- We have advised a client in relation to the provision of security by hull insurers following damage to a port crane.
- We have advised the liquidator in a case involving a claim under a D&O policy resulting from payments made after the company had become unable to pay its debts.
- We have advised insurers on the London market in connection with coverage claims under a non-marine builder’s risk insurance policy.
- We have advised German insurers regarding claims under a builder’ risk policy for a mega yacht.
- We have advised insurers on the London-market as to the mortgagee’s rights under a German marine hull policy in circumstances where the insurers have denied cover to the shipowner.
- We have acted for the vessel owners in a hull claim under successive German policies raising issues as to the scope of cover and apportionment of the claim under the policies.
- We have represented yacht owners in court proceedings in respect of their claim under their yacht hull policy raising issues of over-insurance.
- We have acted for insurers on the London market in German conciliation proceedings regarding coverage claims under a CAR policy in connection with alleged damages to/defects of cooling water pipes for a power plant.
- We have acted for the judicial administrator of the ceding insurer in the negotiation and conclusion of commutation agreements with a large number of insurers and reinsurers following the insolvency of the ceding insurer.
- Providing comprehensive advice provided to re-insurance companies on cover for Covid 19 losses (especially resulting from business closures), with regard to both (German and English) insurance and re-insurance law.