Legal Expenses Insurance
A legal dispute can quickly cost a lot of money. With private legal expenses insurance and traffic legal expenses insurance from CSS you get first-class protection at an excellent price.
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The advantages for you
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Costs of up to CHF 1,000,000 are covered in legal disputes.
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Legal cases are conducted by experienced, specialist legal professionals.
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Free choice of lawyer if you have to go to court.
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Alongside private legal expenses and traffic legal expenses, you can also take out insurance for internet legal expenses and legal expenses for patients.
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Free advice by phone on questions concerning Swiss law.
How legal expenses insurance works
You might suddenly find yourself in need of legal protection: unfair dismissal, a dispute with neighbours, adverse events during medical treatment. Legal expenses insurance protects you and everyone who lives with you.
Private legal expenses
This insurance protects you as an employee, tenant, homeowner, neighbour, consumer and policyholder.
Traffic legal expenses
Whether you’re the driver, owner, keeper, buyer or lessee of a motor vehicle: We’ve got you comprehensively covered.
These costs will be paid
All lawyers fees and court costs, legal opinions and experts, the other party’s legal costs (if you lose) and the cost of translations and travel in connection with a court case.
Worth knowing about legal expenses insurance
What cover is important to you? We recommend our policy add-ons for extra protection at home and away from home. Choose precisely the cover you need.
Internet legal expenses
Online fraud and cybercrime are widespread. Phishing, hacking and credit card misuse: The internet option limits the damage.
Bullying legal expenses
Almost one-third of all adults have already experienced bullying or cyberbullying. We protect you from threats and blackmail – whether in the workplace, at school, in your private life or online.
Legal expenses for patients
Our legal expenses insurance for patients covers you in disputes with doctors or hospitals in Switzerland and in relation to emergency treatment abroad.
Legal expenses for other properties
Do you own several plots of land or properties in Switzerland? Our legal expenses cover provides the protection you require should legal disputes arise.
Legal expenses for landlords
As a landlord, it’s easy to get into disagreements with your tenants. With our legal expenses insurance for landlords, you can get legal assistance in Switzerland for conflicts with tenants in your insured properties. Avoid unexpected costs.
Frequently asked questions
No. This insurance is offered in partnership with Orion Rechtsschutz-Versicherung AG, Basel.
Yes. Refugees from Ukraine with S status are included in the insurance – regardless of whether you have cover for one or more people. This applies until they leave Switzerland or, at the latest, until their S status comes to an end.
If refugees are living in your holiday home, they have no cover for legal expenses. However, if you have personal liability or household contents insurance from CSS, you can get free legal advice by phone for the refugees.
The insurance can be cancelled at the end of the minimum contract term by giving three months' notice.
