
Düsseldorf
+49 211 600 55-585 +49 211 600 55-580 h.palmberger@heuking.de
Languages
German, English, French
Practice groups/Expertise
Consulting focuses
- Insurance Law
- Reinsurance Law
- Arbitration
- Litigation
- Cyber insurance
- D&O, E&O, Fidelity insurance
- Liability Law
- International insurance programs
- Credit insurance
- M&A insurance (insurance for transaction risks)
- Property and technical insurance
- Transport insurance
- Insurance Supervisory Law
- Insurance Distribution Law
- Automotive
Vita
- Certified Specialist Lawyer in Insurance Law
- Admitted to the bar since 1979
- Member of our French Desk
- Education and former activities
- DLA Piper UK LLP, Cologne, Germany 2005-2008
- Clifford Chance, Düsseldorf, Germany 1998-2005
- General Manager of Chubb Insurance Company of Europe, S.A., Direktion für Deutschland, Düsseldorf, Germany 1991-1998
- General Manager of DKV Deutsche Krankenversicherung AG, Cologne, Germany 1988-1991
- Director of Hannover Rückversicherungs- AG, Hannover, Germany 1978-1988
- Company Lawyer of Urenco Ltd., U.K. 1975-1978
- Universities of Bonn, New York and Paris
- Promotion of Dr. iur.
- Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (M.C.J.)
- Examen Préalable du Doctorat d’Université
- Fachanwalt für Versicherungsrecht (Certified Specialist Lawyer in Insurance Law)
- International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
Affiliations
- ARIAS Europe
- ARIAS (US) und ARIAS (UK)
- American Arbitration Association
- International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR)
- American Chamber of Commerce
- Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS)
- Deutscher Verein für Versicherungswissenschaft e.V.
- Deutscher Juristentag
- Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
- Global Bridges e.V.
- Atlantik-Brücke e.V.
- Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
- Tönissteiner Kreis e.V.
- Juristentischgesellschaft
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Deutsch-Schweizerische Juristenvereinigung e.V. (DSJV)
- Industrie-Club
- Gesamtverband der versicherungsnehmenden Wirtschaft e.V.
Dr. Herbert Palmberger's Distinctions

Best Lawyers 2024

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2023

Chambers Europe 2023

Leaders League 2023

Legal 500 Germany 2023
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2022

Best Lawyers 2023

Legal 500 EMEA 2022

WWL Germany 2022

Chambers Europe 2022

Legal 500 Germany 2022
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2021
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Best Lawyers 2022

Legal 500 EMEA 2021

Chambers Europe 2021
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Legal 500 Germany 2021

WWL Germany 2021

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2020

Best Lawyers 2021

Legal 500 EMEA 2020

Chambers Europe 2020

Legal 500 Germany 2020
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2019

Best Lawyers 2020

Legal 500 EMEA 2019

Who's Who Legal 2019

Chambers Europe 2019
Legal 500 Germany 2019
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2018
Best Lawyers 2019

Legal 500 EMEA 2018

Chambers Europe 2018

Legal 500 Germany 2018

Who's Who Legal 2018

JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2017/2018

Best Lawyers 2018
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2017

Legal 500 EMEA 2017

Chambers Europe 2017

Legal 500 Germany 2017
Latest news
Publications
2021
2019
Spezialdeckungen in der Haftpflichtversicherung - ein Überblick
VersicherungsPraxis 10/2019, 3 - 7
Lectures
2013
Rechtsfragen im Zusammenhang mit Portfoliokäufen und -verkäufen
Swiss Run-Off-Forum, Zurich, March 15, 2013
2011
Arbitration in (Re-) Insurance matters: Growing Pressure or Business as usual?
Düsseldorf International Arbitration School in Cooperation with German Insitution for Arbitration (DIS), September 29, 2011 in Düsseldorf
2010
Captives und Run-Off – ein Spezialfall?
May 7, 2010 in Zurich
2008
Behandlung von internationalen Versicherungsprogrammen
June 3, 2008 in Munich
2007
AGG: Auswirkungen auf Industrie und Assekuranz
November 22, 2007 in Cologne
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