Marcel Hohagen, LLM, is a lawyer and partner in the Industrial Liability department at the Dortmund office. He is a renowned legal expert in industrial liability insurance and particularly in product liability and environmental liability insurance. He offers a profound understanding of technical, chemical, biological and geological matters as well as many years of experience. Marcel Hohagen is familiar with the interactions of civil and public liability, hazard defence and procedural law in connection with insurance coverage issues and has a well-founded understanding of relevant common legal principles across borders. He is currently representing, for example, an industrial liability insurer in relation to claims brought by tens of thousands of injured parties in connection with an internationally distributed medical device. In recent years, he has managed cases that include the legal defence of a subrogation claim arising from a major fire loss as well as coverage litigation for an international industrial insurer over costs incurred from a worldwide car manufacturer recall.

Marcel Hohagen, LL.M.
- Crisis Counselling/Response
- Life Science
- General Liability
- Product Development
- Product Liability and Recalls
- Staats- und Amtshaftung
- Environmental Insurance
2002-2007
Law studies, University of Bochum
2003 – 2005
Intensive course "commercial law"
2007 – 2009
Legal clerkship in the regional court Bochum district
since 2009
Lawyer at BLD
2011 – 2012
Secondment in the claims department of an international industrial insurer (Employer’s Liability / Product Liability)
2013 - 2015
LL.M. Studies Insurance Law,
University of Münster
since 2016
Partner at BLD
Marcel Hohagen, LL.M.
Lawyer | Partner | Specialist Insurance Lawyer
Theodor-Heuss-Ring 13-15
50668 Cologne
Tel +49 221 944027-31
Ruhrallee 9
44139 Dortmund
Tel +49 231 997665-0