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Trans­port Safety
27.08.2018

Non-Stan­dar­di­zed Car­goes: Eight Sug­ge­s­ti­ons for Safer Ship­ping
Trans­port Safety
27.08.2018

Non-Stan­dar­di­zed Car­goes: Eight Sug­ge­s­ti­ons for Safer Ship­ping
Inter­na­tio­nal ship­ping has seen a con­stant incre­ase in the size and weight of non-stan­dar­di­zed car­goes in the past 20 years. The­re­fore, the Ger­man marine insu­rers pro­pose to adjust the Inter­na­tio­nal Mari­time Orga­ni­sa­tion´s (IMO) recom­men­da­ti­ons...
Lia­bi­lity
08.08.2018

Pro­duct Lia­bi­lity and emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies
Lia­bi­lity
08.08.2018

Pro­duct Lia­bi­lity and emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies
The exis­ting legal lia­bi­lity fra­me­work, espe­ci­ally for manu­fac­tur­ers' lia­bi­lity under the Pro­duct Lia­bi­lity Direc­tive 85/374/EEC, is fully ade­quate to address the risks posed by emer­ging digi­tal tech­no­lo­gies. Ins­urance solu­ti­ons are rea­dily...
01.08.2018

The Future Eco­no­mic Rela­ti­ons bet­ween the EU and the UK
01.08.2018

The Future Eco­no­mic Rela­ti­ons bet­ween the EU and the UK
Eco­no­mic rela­ti­ons with the Uni­ted King­dom will become less intense after Bre­xit. This will espe­ci­ally be the case for the finan­cial ser­vices indus­try. The chal­len­ges faced by the ins­urance indus­try are many­fold.
24.07.2018

Posi­tion of the GDV on the pro­po­sed revi­sion of the Motor Ins­urance Direc­tive
24.07.2018

Posi­tion of the GDV on the pro­po­sed revi­sion of the Motor Ins­urance Direc­tive
On 24 May 2018, the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion publis­hed its pro­po­sal for a Direc­tive of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment and of the Coun­cil amen­ding Direc­tive 2009/103/EC of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment and of the Coun­cil of 16 Sep­tem­ber 2009 rela­ting to ins­urance...
Column Inter­net of Things
19.07.2018

Sha­red lia­bi­lity: to ensure rapid tech­no­lo­gi­cal change remains soci­ally accep­ta­ble
Column Inter­net of Things
19.07.2018

Sha­red lia­bi­lity: to ensure rapid tech­no­lo­gi­cal change remains soci­ally accep­ta­ble
Digi­ti­za­tion, AI, the Inter­net of Things – all key­words that are bound together. These new buzz­words also raise ques­ti­ons con­cer­ning their inher­ent risks – ques­ti­ons which ulti­ma­tely affect us all and, of course, our indus­try. Arti­fi­cial...
Sustaina­ble finance column
06.07.2018

It’s not enough to just be green
Sustaina­ble finance column
06.07.2018

It’s not enough to just be green
Insu­rers have always had a par­ti­cu­lar inte­rest in sustaina­ble capi­tal invest­ments as their busi­ness model is based on long-term pro­tec­tion from risks. Eco­nomy and eco­logy can­not be mutually exclu­sive within this model. We accept this chal­lenge –...
Column on the GDPR
16.05.2018

Good data pro­tec­tion is essen­tial – within rea­son
Column on the GDPR
16.05.2018

Good data pro­tec­tion is essen­tial – within rea­son
Insu­rers know all about imple­men­ting com­plex regu­la­tory requi­re­ments, given the vigo­rous regu­la­tion of their indus­try – nevert­he­less the Gene­ral Data Pro­tec­tion Regu­la­tion (GDPR) still poses a major chal­lenge. The column of Jörg von Fürs­ten­werth
Column on dis­mant­ling bureau­cracy
12.04.2018

Who is sup­po­sed to manage?
Column on dis­mant­ling bureau­cracy
12.04.2018

Who is sup­po­sed to manage?
The ver­dict two years after the start of Sol­vency II: the effort and expense impo­sed by the super­vi­sory regime is affec­ting the sec­tor exces­si­vely. Three pro­po­sals to bring rapid change.
Cyber­se­cu­rity column
01.03.2018

Cross-bor­der risks
Cyber­se­cu­rity column
01.03.2018

Cross-bor­der risks
The Mobile World Con­gress in Bar­ce­lona has long since moved beyond just being a mobile phone exhi­bi­tion. The Inter­net of Things is making its pre­sence felt – and the threat of cyber­crime is incre­a­sing with every net­work node. As insu­rers, we...
Annual Press Con­fe­rence
31.01.2018

Ger­man insu­rers remain on growth path
Annual Press Con­fe­rence
31.01.2018

Ger­man insu­rers remain on growth path
The Ger­man ins­urance sec­tor excee­ded its own fore­casts in the past finan­cial year. All three busi­ness lines achie­ved bet­ter results than expec­ted one year ago, with pre­mium income of EUR 197.7 bil­lion (+1.7 per­cent) in 2017, announ­ced Wolf­gang...