Legal Protection Insurance and Legal Technology

This book addresses the legal protection insurance market and continues the collection and analysis of data carried out by Legal Protection International aisbl (at the time, the International Association of Legal Protection Insurance) in recent years. Its first part covers the fundamentals of and recent advances in the legal protection insurance market, while the second presents a study on the relevant legal framework for offering Legal Technology services as a legal protection insurer in Germany. In this context, the study also defines the term “Legal Technology”, categorises Legal Technology services (“application-oriented categorisation”), analyses the relevant European legal framework and highlights the connections to the upcoming European Artificial Intelligence Act.

1. Executive summary.- 2. Data on legal protection insurance.- Definition of “legal protection insurance” and further explanations.- Methodology and data sources.- Overview of the development in the legal protection insurance market.- 3. Study on the relevant legal frameworks for offering Legal Technology services as a legal protection insurer in Germany.- Legal Technology.- The European legal framework.- The German legal framework.- Conclusion.