D&O insurance (Directors and Officers insurance, also organ or manager liability insurance) is a financial damage liability insurance, which locks an enterprise for its organs and leading employees. It concerns thus an insurance in favor of third.

History

To introduce, there were first attempts a liability insurance for enterprise leaders in Germany already 1895 by the general German cooperative insurance company. Failed an introduction however first because of rather moral doubts. After one already recognized the appropriateness of the D&O insurance in the USA in the 30's and it came there in the middle of the 80's to substantial requirements opposite managers, this branch of insurance in a broad market became generally accepted and received more and more attention also international. It is not amazing therefore also that the first D&O insurance in Germany was offered 1986 then by the subsidiary of the US insurer to Chubb.

Extent

Seized by the insurance protection usually are all organs (executive committee, management, supervisory board, adviser and leading employee (attorney of a society, which have to fulfill the care of a tidy and conscientious manager (definition according to the relevant regulations of the GmbH law and/or the law on limited companies, a more exact interpretation is regularly only in individual cases possible). Covering exists thereby during duty to exercise diligence injuries without resolution and/or knowing obligation injury in the interior relationship (thus in relation to the society) as also in the external relationship (thus opposite partners, customers, competitors, suppliers, authorities and other third). Are replaced normally all financial damages, which were caused during the insurance period and with those the damages requirement still within the insurance running time taken place. ("“claims larva principle"”). Besides in rule caused financial damages are integrated already before into the insurance protection as far as the collection of the requirement after beginning of contract effected and the obligation injury does not admit to the insured persons and the insurant (usually the society) up to the conclusion of the contract, was or would have admits to be to be able. So-called Nachmeldefristen is mirror-image in many D & O-contracts. Afterwards also such claims for damages of the insurance protection are covered, which are made valid after contract completion within a limited period (i.d.R. 6 months to 3 years) and with those the underlying obligation offence on the period before contract completion dated. With change of the insurer the Nachmeldefrist of the preliminary agreement ends i.d.R. with beginning of the new D & O-insurance contract.

Borders of the D&O insurance:

1. The D&O insurance is a typical liability insurance - not however an all risks insurance on vehicles. This means that a culpable obligation-adverse failure must be accused to the insured person, thus the organ, which led to a financial damage on sides of the policyholder or third. However the statement or statement of one "“wrong"” or disadvantageous business decision is not obviously sufficient.

2. The interest situation of all involved ones is extremely complex in the case of damage and leads often to the fact that compromises (deals) between the involved ones are negotiated.

3. Covering cannot be all comprehensive already after law and faithful and faith. Thus does not occur for instance with resolution of the insurers. Depending upon offerer and risk situation various exclusion facts limit the insurance protection partially substantially.

Other

An addition finds the D&O insurance often in the security of so-called ODL mandates (ODL = outside directorship liability), thus with delegation of own coworkers into organs of strange enterprises. Consistent extension of the insurance protection of societies offers the so-called criminal law protection insuranceinsurance criminal law protection insurance as well as the confidence indemnity insurance in criminal regard (v.a. against coworker criminality). In the European Union also the security before requirements for article of employment legal protection (keyword EPLI - practices liability insurance employment) becomes ever more relevantly by the conversion of the anti-discrimination guideline.

Literature

• Ihlas, organ adhesion and liability insurance
• personal adhesion of managers and supervisory boards

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