Prof. Dr. Dirk-Carsten Günther

Prof Dr Dirk-Carsten Günther is a lawyer and partner at the Cologne office. He leads the Property, Marine and Transport department and the BLD Forensic Claims Center. Prof Dr Dirk-Carsten Günther is a Specialist Insurance Lawyer and a full professor at the Faculty of Economics and Law at the Institute of Insurance Science TH Köln, where he leads the department of Property Insurance and related insurance branches. He is also co-director of the Insurance Law Research Centre and co-director of the LLM programme in Insurance Law at TH Köln. Prof Dr Dirk-Carsten Günther is co-editor of the insurance law service of beckonline, founder of the blog www.blogversicherungsrecht.de and manages the YouTube channel Versicherungsrecht & Co. As one of the most sought-after insurance law experts in Germany, his extensive specialist publications and public statements attract widespread attention in the formation of opinion, as most recently in the course of lawsuits pertaining to business interruption insurance in the wake of Covid-related closures. Prof Dr Dirk-Carsten Günther consults our clients on numerous major loss events and complex claims, as well as on current developments, e.g., in the area of digitalisation or major natural hazard events such as the 2021 flood disaster in western Germany.