Markus Kimpel

As a certified specialist in insurance law, I specialise in all areas of property and personal insurance. I advise and represent policyholders, insurers and insurance brokers out of court and enforce or defend claims in court.

My many years of practical experience relate in particular to claims arising from buildings insurance (water, fire, storm and natural hazards) as well as contents and business interruption insurance.

In the area of liability law, I specialise in pecuniary loss liability law, claims arising from D&O insurance, public liability insurance, cyber insurance and product liability law.

Due to my qualification as a certified specialist in tenancy and residential property law, I advise and represent condominium owners, condominium owners’ associations and administrators, commercial and private tenants and landlords as well as real estate agents.

My expertise in this area includes condominium law, tenancy law and all other property law matters.

• Certified specialist in tenancy and residential property law, 2022
• Attorney and partner at SNP Schlawien, Düsseldorf since 2016
• Attorney at Jacobs & Partner in Düsseldorf, specialising in insurance law and real estate law, 2013-2016
• Certified specialist in insurance law, since 2010
• Attorney at Solmecke Rechtsanwälte in Cologne, specialising in insurance law and real estate law, 2006-2013
• Admission to the bar, 2006
• Legal internship at Mönchengladbach District Court, 2004-2006
• Study of law at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, 1998-2003

• Handelsblatt “Germany’s best law firms” in real estate law, since 2024

• Kimpel, Markus: Fire damage in residential building insurance: Requirements for the substantiation of the amount of damage, comment on BGH, judgement of 21 September 2022 – IV ZR 501/21. In: juris PraxisReport Versicherungsrecht 2/2023 note 2
• Kimpel, Markus: Flood damage due to heavy rain in natural hazard insurance: Requirements for a conclusive presentation on the insured event and amount of compensation, comment on OLG Cologne, judgement of 08.06.2021 – 9 U 20/21. In: juris PraxisReport Versicherungsrecht 3/2022 note 6
• Kimpel, Markus: Business closure insurance in the event of closure as a result of the corona pandemic: Intervening insurance cover due to lack of transparency of an exhaustive catalogue of notifiable diseases and pathogens, comment on OLG Karlsruhe, judgment of 30.06.2021 – 12 U 4/21. In: juris PraxisReport Versicherungsrecht 7/2021 note 2
• Kimpel, Markus: Mere compensation for reduction in value instead of reimbursement of repair costs in the case of purely cosmetic damage in residential building insurance, comment on Ansbach Regional Court, judgement of 11 September 2019 – 3 O 618/18 Ver. In: juris PraxisReport Versicherungsrecht 3/2020 note 4
• Kimpel, Markus: Right to information of a curator of an estate about the identity of the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, comment on OLG Hamm, judgement of 23 November 2018 – 20 U 72/18. In: juris PraxisReport Versicherungsrecht 3/2019 note 1
• Kimpel, Markus: Building-related burglary also in household contents outdoor insurance; no insurance cover for burglary in a mobile home parked outdoors, comment on OLG Karlsruhe, judgement of 21/08/2018 – 12 U 51/18. In: juris PraxisReport Versicherungsrecht 11/2018 note 6
• Kimpel, Markus: Burden of proof requirements for the building insurer’s compensation claim against the tenant’s liability insurer. Comment on OLG Frankfurt, decision of 16 November 2017 – 3 U 69/15. In: jurisPraxisReport Insurance Law 9/2018 note 2
• Kimpel, Markus: Avoiding gaps in cover – D&O insurance, in: DATEV-Magazin, issue 8, 2018
  https://www.datev-magazin.de/praxis/deckungsluecken-vermeiden-1714
• Kimpel, Markus: No product liability for electricity in the event of overvoltage damage in the event of force majeure. Comment on Essen Regional Court, judgement of 16 October 2017 – 6 O 152/17. in: juris PraxisReport Versicherungsrecht, 5/2018, note 6
• Kimpel, Markus: Multiple insurance for activities of a doctor in private practice in preparation for an operation as a fee-based doctor in hospital, comment on BGH, judgement of 13 March 2018 – VI ZR 151/17. In: juris PraxisReport Versicherungsrecht 6/2018 note 1