Focus

INSURANCE +
LIABILITY

Liability for Medical Malpractice

We advise and represent hospital operators, hospital doctors, doctors in private practice, patients and health insurance companies throughout Germany in numerous medical malpractice lawsuits and can draw on many years of special experience.

Julia Bender LL.M. Eur. Specialist lawyer for medical law / Specialist lawyer for social law

Career trajectory

  • 1993 - 1998 Studied law in Hamburg, Regensburg and Saarbrücken with periods abroad in Gothenburg/Sweden and Bristol/England
  • 1998 - 2003 Studied European Integration in Saarbrücken with a period abroad in Budapest/Hungary
  • 2001 - 2003 Legal clerkship in Saarbrücken
  • 2005 Awarded the degree "Master of European Law" (LL.M. Eur.)
  • 2003 - 2011 Legal practice with a focus on insurance lawM Employment at a private health insurance company, teaching activities at the AWO Nursing School and the AWO Academy, among others
  • 2015 Admitted as a specialist lawyer for medical law
  • 2017 Admitted as a specialist lawyer for social law
  • 2011-2022 Worked as a lawyer in a medium-sized law firm specializing in medical law and social law; taught at the Berufsakademie für Sozialwesen Saarland and for SHG Bildung gGmbH
  • 2022 Joined the law firm KHH LEGAL Kropp Haag Hübinger

  • Juris Practice Report on Medical Law;
  • Medical Law Working Group of the German Bar Association;
  • Social Law Working Group of the German Bar Association;
  • German Society for Statutory Health Insurance Physicians' Law (membership applied for);
  • German Society for Palliative Medicine;
  • Saarland Bar Association

  • "Self-determined dying?" The latest trends in the case law of the Federal Court of Justice on the termination of treatment (lecture at the Nursing Forum: Varitec AG 2018 Management Day Law);
  • "Medical confidentiality": New version of Section 203 StGB against the background of the GDPR (Lecture Praximum/ Munich 2018);
  • "Healthcare proxy, care directive and living will" (Lecture: Deutsche Parkinsonvereinigung e.V. 2018);  
  • Medical device law: Fundamentals of the manufacture of medical devices Safe operation and use of medical devices (Seminar: Aus -und Weiterbildung im Gesundheitswesen: AWO - Akademie Saar: 2019,2020,2021, 2022);
  • Medical device law: Safety officer for medical devices according to § 6 Medical Device Operator Ordinance / Basics of reporting (Seminar training and further education in healthcare AWO Akademie Saar: 2019,2020,2021, 2022);
  • Health law, care law (teaching activity SHG Bildung gGmbH: Certified specialists in healthcare and social services (IHK) 2019-2022);
  • "Anti-corruption law, data protection, clarification and information obligations, etc." (Further training: "Certified specialist:IN MKG - billing" Lafrentz billing service 2019, 2020);
  • Civil protection laws: "Substitution versus delegation": The most important changes in the Infection Protection Act (AWO-Akademie Saar: Management Day 2020, 2021);
  • Legal aspects in nursing care (R.O.M.B.U.S. Academy 2022)
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