{"title":"Ban on Distributing Certain Unit Linked Life Insurance Contracts as the Supervisory Product Intervention of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA)","authors":"Monika Szaraniec","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.6035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.6035","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims at discussing practical aspects of a legal regulation providing the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and national supervisory authorities with the power to apply supervisory product intervention measures, particularly for insurance investment products. In addition to presenting the essence of product decisions, the author outlines the legal basis for product intervention powers of both the EU and national supervisory authorities related to unit linked life insurance contracts. Moreover, the article analyses the reasons and contents of the product decision issued by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority regarding the ban on distributing certain unit linked life insurance contracts, with the ban being effective from January 1, 2022.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116210592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doubts about the Necessity to Obtain the Patient's Consent to Provide the Insurer with Medical Records in Medical Damage","authors":"Iwona Kaczorowska-Kossowska","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.6037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.6037","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the issue of providing the patient's medical records to the insurance company by an entity performing medical services in the event of the injured party making a claim to remedy damage resulting from the performance of medical services (so-called medical damage). This article focuses on whether it is necessary or not to obtain the consent of a patient. As the circulation of documentation concerning damage has been regulated both in the provisions relating to the loss adjustment procedures and in legislation on medical activity, and given that in the case concerned damage documentation comprises medical records, it is necessary to discuss the effects of the collision of those two legal regimes for providing an insurance undertaking with access to said documents. It is particularly worth considering whether the provisions of the Insurance and Reinsurance Activity Act in connection with the provisions of the Compulsory Insurance Act constitute an independent basis for making available to the insurer health records necessary for loss adjustment, or whether such a disclosure should be preceded by obtaining the injured party’s consent.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132981563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gloss to the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 29 April 2021 in the Case of Ostrów County v the Insurance Guarantee Fund (C 383/19)","authors":"Beata Mrozowska - Bartkiewicz, Paweł Matej","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.6038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.6038","url":null,"abstract":"On 29 April 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C 383/19 passed a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of Article 3 of Directive 2009/103/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles and the enforcement of the obligation to insure against such liability. This judgment is of key importance for Polish insurance industry, especially for maintaining the coherence of the compulsory insurance system of motor liability insurance for motor vehicle owners for damage caused by the use of their vehicles. The social function of this obligatory insurance is inextricably linked with the protection of third parties against the effects of frequent adverse incidents resulting from the use of motor vehicles in the modern world. What is more, a compulsory insurance contract ought not to be treated as a financial burden for vehicle owners, because it both protects possible perpetrators of motor accidents from serious financial charges and prevents an excessive depletion of their assets due to civil liability. The above-mentioned judgment concerns the confirmation of the principle that in the current Polish legal system there is no possibility of either ignoring the obligation to conclude a civil liability insurance contract or being exempt from such obligation, where the owner is not able to use the vehicle for some period owing to its technical condition.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131445350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insurer's Performance in Unit Linked Life Insurance Plans","authors":"M. Szczepańska","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.2756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.2756","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to comprehensively discuss the performance to be made by parties to the unit linked life insurance plans (ULIPs), with a particular emphasis being placed on the performance on the part of insurance undertakings. The specific nature of this contract results in various types and methods of paying benefits in unit linked insurance plans. Due to the lack of detailed legal regulations in this area, it seems reasonable to present legal characteristics of the particular types of benefits. Determination of the amount of latter, taking into consideration first and foremost the investment nature of the contract, which makes it different from common life insurance policies, requires a thorough discussion in ULIPs.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123702774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taxation of Insurance Premiums in the EU Cross-Border Insurance Business","authors":"A. Tarasiuk, Bracken Crossley","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.2820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.2820","url":null,"abstract":"As in many other cases of business activity, the performance of insurance activity involves various types of tax charges. Insurance contracts, having been excluded from the scope of value-added tax at the EU level, are subjected to taxes specific to insurance activity, namely insurance premium taxes, which are discussed in the article. However, insurance premium tax regulations are not harmonised at the EU level and vary immensely from one country to another. In fact, in some EU countries, including Poland, no such taxes have been implemented whatsoever. \u0000The issue discussed in the article is related to the fact that an increasing number of insurance companies perform insurance activity on a cross border basis. From this point of view, although there is no such tax in Poland, it may be of great importance to Polish insurance companies that insure risks located outside Poland. \u0000The regulations concerning the insurance premium tax depend on internal decisions of individual European Union countries, both in terms of the introduction of such tax, exemptions, and rates, and they may differ significantly across those jurisdictions.\u0000Due to the nature of cross-border activity and the rules on the localisation of the risk associated with the taxation of premiums, it was not clear whether and to what extent, in the case of insurance of risks located outside Poland, a tax obligation arises in respect of insurance premiums. These questions were addressed by the Court of Justice of the EU in several cases (C-118/96, C191/99, C-243-11). The CJEU decisions have revealed the multifaceted complexity inherent to the taxation of cross border insurance contracts.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128547231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freedom to Define Membership in a Mutual Insurance Company","authors":"Beata Mrozowska - Bartkiewicz","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.2755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.2755","url":null,"abstract":"A mutual insurance society is one of the basic forms of conducting insurance activity. It is characterized by a very wide range of options which its founders and subsequently entitled members have in order to choose the organizational and systemic model of operation, to change it in the course of business, to define the concept of membership, to create various categories of members and provide them with different rights and duties, to determine the powers of statutory bodies, and, above all, to apply the method of mutuality. The Insurance and Reinsurance Activity Act regulates the basic legal framework of mutual companies, while referring quite a number of issues to the Polish Commercial Partnerships and Companies Code. This does not alter the fundamental principle on which the company's activity is based, namely that its articles of association play an extremely important role, which is much greater than in the case of public limited liability companies, and that members of a mutual insurance society enjoy considerable freedom to conduct business and categorize its members, which is unparalleled for other legal forms of business activity.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122150910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violation of Recommendations Issued by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority as a Basis for Imposing Sanctions Pursuant to Article 362(1) of the Insurance and Reinsurance Activity Act of 11 September 2015","authors":"Paweł Matej","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.2757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.2757","url":null,"abstract":"Pursuant to Article 361(1) of the Insurance and Reinsurance Activity Act of 11 September 2015, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) may issue recommendations for insurance and reinsurance undertakings. In the case of non-compliance, such recommendations may give rise to the imposition of administrative sanctions. The purpose of the article is to decide to what extent the violation of supervisory acts, such as the PFSA’s recommendations, determines the administrative liability of insurance and reinsurance undertakings.\u0000Furthermore, the article aims at discussing to what extent a breach of non-authoritative acts of a supervisory nature, such as the PFSA’s recommendations, may constitute the basis for administrative liability provided for in Article 362(1) of the Act. The author conducts his analysis in the context of constitutional standards applicable to administrative responsibility. Those standards are compared with the decisions of the PFSA rendered as a result of the violation of its recommendations. In addition, the article presents de lege lata and de lege ferenda conclusions which relate to ensuring compliance with constitutional requirements of the procedure for sanctioning violations of recommendations issued by the PFSA.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"644 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122957519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Purchase of a Leased Vehicle by a User Who Has Concluded a Motor Third Party Liability Insurance Contract","authors":"Marcin Orlicki","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0015.2771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.2771","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on the interpretation of Article 31(1) of the Act on Compulsory Insurance, the Insurance Guarantee Fund and the Polish Bureau of Motor Insurers as regards legal consequences of the purchase of a vehicle by its user in the performance of the leasing contract, with the user having previously taken out a motor third party liability insurance. The article contains a polemical analysis of the position of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority of 11 February 2021.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125738061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the Need to Define Uniform Rules for the Operation of Insurance Guarantee Schemes in the Event of Insurer's Bankruptcy in the European Union","authors":"I. Szczesna","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0014.5457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.5457","url":null,"abstract":"The European Union has been working for years to establish uniform rules for the operation of insurance guarantee funds in the Member States. They are the equivalents of the Polish Insurance Guarantee Fund. The rules should increase the protection of consumers, i.e. policyholders and the injured. However, it has not been decided yet who will actually be protected by the new regulation, namely whether these will be all the insured or only those who have concluded a compulsory insurance contract. Will all Europeans be protected in the same way or only residents of individual Member States? What is more, the ultimate cost of the systemic changes to be introduced into the Polish market is also unknown. If the system applied to numerous business lines and covered natural persons as well as small and medium-sized enterprises, insurance would certainly become very expensive, leaving many Poles without protection. This article aims to familiarize readers with the current state of legislative works as well as the directions for the development of systemic changes.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128643401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law. New Quality of Reinsurance Contracts","authors":"M. Ostrowska","doi":"10.5604/01.3001.0014.5424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.5424","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents an international project on reinsurance contract law: The Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL), and assesses its potential practical application, also from the perspective of Polish market. The analysis of current problems arising from reinsurance contracts, i.e. legal uncertainty as to the law applicable and contractual relationship, explains the rationale behind the PRICL and stresses their importance. The arguments presented in the study are supported with the particularly vital practitioners’ voice. Furthermore, the article considers technical aspects of the PRICL application, such as their legal efficiency in court proceedings.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":277138,"journal":{"name":"Prawo Asekuracyjne","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133444827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}