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The "Act to Strengthen Fair Competition" is coming

Category: contract law Industry: consumer goods, machine construction, mobility Author: Daniel Wuhrmann Date: 2020

The "Act to Strengthen Fair Competition" was adopted by Germany's Federal Parliament on 10 September 2020 and approved by the Federal Council more...

Meeting of the "Expert Group on liability and new technologies"

Category: product liability , compliance , insurance law Industry: machine construction, railway, mobility, healthcare Author: Philipp Reusch Date: 2019

The "Expert Group on liability and new technologies" met on 5 November 2019 in order to discuss future challenges in product liability more...

Update on the emissions scandal

Category: compliance , insurance law , recall management Industry: mobility Author: Daniel Wuhrmann , Thorsten Deeg Date: 2019

BGH confirms defect. In its judgement of 8 January 2019, published only recently, and after a large number of other rulings in lower courts, the more...

Insurance against the costs of recall campaigns – what do manufacturers need to pay heed to?

Category: recall management , product liability , insurance law Industry: consumer goods, cosmetics, healthcare Author: Philipp Reusch Date: 2018

The judgement on care patients' beds and insurance against the costs of recall campaigns. The third and last article in our series on risk management more...

Extended product liability insurance

Category: contract law , insurance law Industry: consumer goods, cosmetics, railway Author: Philipp Reusch Date: 2018

A must-have for the supply industry. The second article in our three-part series on risk management as it relates to insurance law. An article by more...

Testing in the light of functional safety

Category: product safety , contract law , insurance law Industry: mobility, machine construction Date: 2017

Publication by Andreas Reuter in the specialist journal PHi – issue 3/2017 more...