Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer) and Partner
Prof Dr Tobias Lenz has been working as a lawyer in our Cologne office since 1993. He advises clients on product liability and product safety law and insurance law (covering almost all insurance sectors) at national and international level. Other areas of focus in his work include executive board and managing director liability, especially in relation to compliance issues, with typical D&O insurance law questions and issues surrounding the ever-growing cyber risks (cyber insurance). He also has many years of experience in commercial and corporate law, particularly in preventive advice and litigation, and regularly acts as an arbitrator. He also holds advisory board and supervisory board mandates.
He is also a lecturer at the University of Münster as part of the “Financial Lines” certification course offered by the German Association for Financial Loss Liability (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Vermögensschadenhaftpflicht e.V.) and a professor of national and international commercial law at the Rheinische Hochschule Köln and former director of the Institute for Liability and Insurance Law. He is also a trainer for certified specialists in insurance law at the German Lawyers’ Academy in Berlin.
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9. July 2025
Jurisdiction clauses: New distribution of jurisdiction among the courts in North Rhine-Westphalia
The (second) ordinance amending the Ordinance on Jurisdiction of June 3, 2025 (GV. NRW 2025 No. 27 of June 17, 2025, p. 507 ff.), the statewide jurisdictions of the Higher Regional Courts of Hamm and Cologne were expanded as of July 1, 2025. At the same time, a new judicial focus is being established at...
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Product Liability Law
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9. September 2024
Product Law: The EU Battery Regulation – challenging for companies
The EU Battery Regulation ((EU) 2023/1542), which came into force on August 17, 2023, has been partly applicable since February 18, 2024. Companies are undoubtedly confronted with a complex piece of legislation that requires both entrepreneurial and legal insight. The practical challenges are multilayered. Overview of the Regulation’s subject matter The Battery Regulation is intended...
20. February 2024
Product liability: German Federal Court of Justice on burden of proof requirements: No product liability for breakage of a ceramic inlay in a hip prosthesis
In its judgment of August 1, 2023 (case no. VI ZR 82/22), the 6th Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice (“BGH”) dismissed the appeal against the manufacturer in proceedings concerning alleged manufacturing, design and instruction errors in connection with the breakage of the ceramic inlay of a hip prosthesis and, moreover, confirmed (for...
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