Bundesgerichtshof: Legal Protection for Possible Immunisation Damages? BGH Overturns Judgment
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Claims against vaccine manufacturers have not been uncommon since the Corona pandemic. Often insurance companies do not want to support them - because of supposedly low chances of success. Often wrongly, the BGH ruled now. Von A. Stein.
A man wanted to claim damages from the vaccine manufacturer after a Corona vaccination. His legal protection insurer refused to accept costs. Now the BGH has judged.
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The Bundesgerichtshof strengthens the rights of a plaintiff who wanted to resort to his legal protection policy in the dispute over Corona immunisation damages, but who refused to do so. An insurance company must not prematurely refuse to protect cover for the action against a vaccine manufacturer because of allegedly missing prospects for success (Az. IV ZR 214/25). With this judgment the fourth civil senate repealed a decision of the OLG Düsse…
The Federal Court of Justice has decided in a recent judgment that the legal protection insurer cannot decide whether the claim for an immunisation damage is likely to be successful in advance – and it has prohibited insurers from denying cover to customers because of too high requirements on the chances of success.The Federal Court of Justice has facilitated damages actions for possible immunisation damages© picture alliance/dpa In the future, …
Karlsruhe – After a legal protection insurance company did not want to finance a customer's claim for alleged immunisation damages, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) found the insurer's decision to be unjustified. As the court in Karlsruhe announced today, the man wanted to sue the pharmaceutical company Biontech. He made this decision for a...
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