Judicial Council Kurt Haag Specialist lawyer for insurance law / Partner

Focus areas

Career trajectory

  • 1966 - 1968 Apprenticeship as a bank clerk
  • 1968 - 1973 Studied law and business administration at Saarland University and Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
  • 1973 - 1976 Legal clerkship in Saarbrücken
  • 1976 Admitted to the bar and joined the former law firm Dr. Kunschert u. Kropp
  • 2005 Admitted as a specialist lawyer for insurance law
  • 2008 Appointment as a councillor of justice by the Saarland state government

References

  • "Frequently recommended lawyer" (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019);
  • "competent lawyer and honest worker", colleague (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2002/2003)
  • "very competent and diligent", competitor (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2005/2006)
  • "very competent and extremely diligent", competitor (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2006/2007)
  • "satisfied for years in insurance law", client (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2007/2008)
  • "Insurance law" always has an eye for economic issues", client (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2008/2009)
  • "very satisfied in insurance law", client (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2010/2011)
  • "very experienced", client (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2011/2012)
  • "very diligent, very entrepreneurial", client (JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2012/2013)
  • "profound knowledge, client; professionally top", competitor (JUVE Handbook of German Commercial Law Firms 2012/2013)
  • "very good professionally, highly respectable in court", competitor (JUVE Handbook of German Commercial Law Firms 2013/2014)

  • 1993 to 2005 Member of the Board of the Saarland Bar Association (10 years Managing Director, 2 years Vice President);
  • 2002 to 2016 Member of the Assembly of Representatives of the Pension Fund of the Saarland Bar Association;
  • 2000 to 2012 Treasurer of the Institute for Lawyers' Law Saarbrücken e.V.

  • Insurance Law Working Group of the German Bar Association
  • German Association for Insurance Science e.V.
  • Institute for Lawyers' Law Saarbrücken e.V. (founding member)
  • Saarland Bar Association

  • Since 2011 editor and for more than 25 years co-author of the standard work on liability law: Geigel, Der Haftpflichtprozess, most recently 28th edition 2020, Verlag C.H. Beck, Munich