BGH for the Limitation of Account Fees
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For years, banks and savings banks sometimes charged illegal fees. After a BGH ruling four years ago, many customers were able to claim money back. The question was only how long. Now this point is also decided.
For years, banks and savings banks sometimes charged illegal fees. After a BGH ruling four years ago, many customers were able to claim money back. Now, the statute of limitations has also been clarified.
In the dispute over the repayment of inadmissible account management fees, the Bundesgerichtshof decided: only three years after the collection, bank customers can recover money. The complaint of the consumer centers failed.
For years, banks and savings banks sometimes demanded illegal account fees from their customers. Many of them will not get their money back, because the claims are already statute-barredBank customers can in principle only claim back inadmissible account management fees for three years after collection. This was decided by the Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday and thus dismissed a model lawsuit by the Federal Association of Consumer Centres. W…


For years, banks and savings banks sometimes charged illegal fees. After a BGH ruling four years ago, many customers were able to claim money back. Now, the statute of limitations has also been clarified.
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