ILC to Welcome Dr. Oliver Brand for Lunchtime Lecture

The Insurance Law Center at UConn Law

is pleased to invite you to a lunchtime lecture by

Headshot of Dr Oliver Brand smiling in a suit and tie.

Dr. Oliver Brand

Martin Flynn Global Law Faculty

Chair of Private Law, Insurance Law, Business Law & Comparative Law at the University of Mannheim, Germany

on the topic of

Misuse of Insurance by Totalitarian Systems:
A Cautionary Tale from Nazi Germany

on

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 12:30pm ET

Thomas J. Meskill Law Library
Room No. 202
UConn School of Law
55 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, CT 06105

Please register by Monday, April 14, 2025.

Lunch is provided for registered attendees.
Remote participation option is available for registered attendees. 


Abstract

Insurance is generally seen as a benefit to society as it allows people to safeguard against the financial consequences of all sorts of unfortunate events. But what happens if the state begins using the tools of insurance law to systematically deprive groups of citizens of any kind of financial security?

Using the actions of the Nazi government in Germany (1933–1945) as an example, this talk explores how instruments like insurance supervision, which were designed to protect insureds and their interests, can be corrupted to work against them by an unscrupulous state.

The collapse of contractual rights, the complicity of the German insurance industry in persecuting citizens of Jewish faith, and also individual acts of resistance against the maelstrom of the Nazi insurance regimes will be highlighted. An outlook on the resilience of modern insurance law against such instances of gross misuse will conclude the talk.


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