INSURANCE



Insurance plays a crucial role in managing risk, safeguarding assets and supporting business continuity. Bucik Law Firm are here to help you and your business thrive in the busy insurance sector. Our Insurance lawyers have a deep understanding of the insurance industry and advise clients across the breadth of their claims issues and commercial services needs.

 

Bucik Law Firm efficiently handle all types of insurance claims and disputes including coverage and liability defence in all major classes of insurance. We handle the full range of insurance matters, from the routine to the most complex, international disputes.

 

We have extensive experience with the following classes of insurance: property, casualty, life and disability, critical illness, accidental death and dismemberment, travel, creditor, commercial liability, construction, auto, aviation, marine, energy, trade credit, product liability, directors and officers liability insurance (D&O), professional liability, technology and warranty.

 

Sanctions: global sanctions present increasingly evolving challenges for GCs, board members, and directors. As geopolitical tensions rise, corporate leaders must navigate heightened legal, ethical, and reputational risks while ensuring compliance across diverse jurisdictions. We are continuing our consultation on sanctions.


Our insurance experience includes:

  • Advising and representing a German trading company in a shipping dispute against a Slovenian freight forwarding agent and an international container shipping company regarding shipping damage claims. Claims arose from a shipment of food products from Egypt to the Slovenian port of Koper. EU, Slovenian, German, and English law applied.

  • Consulting and representing a Slovenian valve manufacturer, which intervened as a third party in support of the defendant, its customer, in a product and manufacturer liability lawsuit in Germany. The plaintiff, one of the Germany´s leading insurance companies, filed a subrogation claim to recover payments made to the owner and operator of a biogas electricity and heat production plant for damage caused by an explosion at the plant.

  • Representing one of the Italiy´s leading insurance companies in a subrogation dispute in Germany. The insurance claimed reimbursement of payments made to the insured, a famous Italian fashion group, arising out of damages from a fire in a shopping mall in Berlin.

  • Advising a Hungarian transport company regarding compensation claims arising from a traffic accident in Germany.

  • Defending a Romanian transport company against compensation claims of an Austrian transport and logistics company in litigation before Slovenian courts. Co-defendants are several insurance companies. The claims arose from a traffic accident in Slovenia involving multiple vehicles from various European countries.

  • Advising an Italian company group on setting up a road transport company in Slovenia and on conducting its international transport business. The advice includes corporate, transport, commercial, financial, insurance, tax, employment, and administrative issues.

  • Acting for the depositors of the Slovenian bank Ljubljanska banka. In the case of Ljubljanska banka, one of the largest in the region, over 40.000 bank depositors claimed the recovery of their "old currency savings", the total amount of the claims exceeded 500 million euros. The case, ruled also by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), related not only to bank restructuring and insolvency, bank liability, depositors protection and human rights but also to the succession of the former Yugoslavia, the liability of the Republic of Slovenia and the sovereign debt of the Republic of Slovenia. 

  • Advising an international company on a high value yacht construction and purchase, including yacht finance and insurance.



BUCIK LAW FIRM


Munich Office
RECHTSANWALTSKANZLEI BUCIK, Nymphenburger Str. 148, 80634 Munich, Germany
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Rome Office

STUDIO LEGALE BUCIK, Via Adda n. 87, 00198 Roma, Italy

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Ljubljana Office
ODVETNIŠKA PISARNA BUCIK, Kotnikova ul. 28, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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