Skip to content

Insurance broker / Business types / Professional services

Insurance for mediators and certified mediators working in Germany

Mediators do not decide, but they guide decisions about homes, companies, maintenance and children. If something goes wrong, for example a gap in the final agreement or confidential information leaking out, a financial loss claim follows quickly. This page is for English speaking mediators working in Germany and explains what the German Mediation Act requires, which insurance makes sense and what it costs.

Insurance for mediators in Germany

The question almost everyone asks first

How can a mediator be liable when the parties make the decisions?

The parties decide, but you run the process. If you fail to disclose circumstances that affect your neutrality, pass on confidential information, or record an agreement that leaves out an important point, you can face a damages claim. These are pure financial losses that ordinary public liability does not cover. That is what professional indemnity insurance is for.

What goes wrong in this trade

  1. 01

    A gap in the agreement

    After a separation mediation, the record says nothing about the house. One party later claims the resulting loss from you.

  2. 02

    Breach of confidentiality

    A detail from a business mediation reaches a trading partner. § 4 of the Mediation Act obliges you to keep it confidential.

  3. 03

    Allegation of bias

    A party learns afterwards that someone in your shared office previously advised the other side. The mediation is challenged.

  4. 04

    Data and documents

    Hacked email accounts, lost laptops or minutes sent to the wrong person, full of sensitive family and company data.

  5. 05

    Fee disputes

    After a failed mediation neither party wants to pay. A dispute over a few thousand euros costs time and a lawyer.

  6. 06

    Accidents on your premises

    A party trips on the stairs to your mediation room. That is bodily injury, not a financial loss.

Risk radar
Liability 5Fire and water 2Theft 1Cyber 4Downtime 3Health 1

Compared with other trades, 1 low to 5 high.

The insurance you need

Essential

Professional indemnity

Professional indemnity covers claims by the parties for errors in the process, the minutes and the final agreement, and defends unjustified ones.

Strongly advised

Business liability

For injury and property damage in your rooms or at on site sessions, often available as an add on to professional indemnity.

Cyber insurance

Mediators hold highly sensitive data. Cyber cover pays for forensics, recovery and help with data breaches.

Business legal expenses

For fee disputes, disputes with landlords and defending allegations outside liability cover.

Depends on the business

Business contents

Replaces furniture, equipment and files after fire, water damage or burglary.

Electronic equipment

For laptop, tablet and conferencing equipment, including when you travel to sessions.

Occupational disability

If you work alone, you earn nothing when your health fails, especially in emotionally demanding cases.

What it costs: example prices

Professional indemnity is the main item. The premium depends on the limit, turnover and focus: business mediations with high values cost more than family or neighbourhood mediation.

InsuranceExampleTypical range
Professional indemnityMediator, family and neighbourhood cases, €250,000 limitabout €150 to €300 a year
Professional indemnityBusiness mediator, €1 million limit, turnover up to €150,000about €400 to €900 a year
Business liabilityMediation practice with its own room, as an add onabout €60 to €150 a year
Cyber insuranceSole practice, €250,000 sum insuredabout €250 to €500 a year
Business legal expensesSelf employed mediator with contract and criminal legal expensesabout €300 to €600 a year

For comparison: Professional indemnity for a family mediator costs about as much per year as two mediation sessions.

All values are guide figures from our quoting work, excluding German insurance premium tax,

as of October 2026.

The linked sources support the legal statements on this page, not the prices.

Sources of the price examples

Our suggestions: three packages

01

Starter

For: Mediator working part time or just starting, without own rooms

  • Professional indemnity
  • Cyber insurance

Together about €400 to €800 a year

Request this package

02

Practice

For: Full time mediation with own premises

  • Professional indemnity
  • Business liability
  • Cyber insurance
  • Business legal expenses
  • Business contents

Together about €900 to €1,800 a year

Request this package

03

Business

For: Business mediation with high values and a team

  • Professional indemnity
  • Business liability
  • Cyber insurance
  • Business legal expenses
  • Electronic equipment

Together individual, usually from about €1,800 a year

Request this package

The worst day in mediation

Six things mediators really experience, here all on one Tuesday. Tap through and see who pays.

Damage so far€41,400
  1. A lawyer calls: the separation agreement from your mediation does not deal with the couple's joint loan.

    €18,000 · Paid by: Professional indemnity

  2. A party slips on the wet floor in your hallway and breaks a wrist.

    €6,000 · Paid by: Business liability

  3. A phishing link exposes your email account, including confidential minutes.

    €7,500 · Paid by: Cyber insurance

  4. After a failed business mediation, the company refuses to pay your fee.

    €3,000 · Paid by: Business legal expenses

  5. Your laptop falls off the table at an on site session; screen and board are broken.

    €1,400 · Paid by: Electronic equipment

  6. A water pipe bursts in the wall above your office. Files, furniture and carpet are soaked.

    €5,500 · Paid by: Business contents

Which package would you have had?

Paid by insurance: €0
Out of your own pocket: €41,400

Illustrative amounts before any excess.

What is paid depends on the policy terms.

Practical tips from your broker

  1. Check that your professional indemnity names mediation as an activity, especially if you are mainly insured for another profession.
  2. Choose the limit to match the values at stake. For business and inheritance mediation, €250,000 is often not enough.
  3. Record your disclosure under § 3 of the Mediation Act and the parties' consent in writing.
  4. Tell the parties how far confidentiality extends, as § 4 requires, and document it.
  5. Send minutes encrypted and check recipients twice.
  6. Have agreements with legal consequences reviewed by the parties' lawyers before they sign.

Why NAMMERT for your business

We know indemnity wordings

Activity description, exclusions, run off cover: this is where offers differ. As brokers we put them side by side.

Several professions, one cover

Many mediators also work as lawyers, coaches or consultants. We make sure every activity is covered without gaps.

Practice and private together

Liability, cyber, legal expenses and your own provision handled together, with one contact person, in English or German.

Family business since 1989

Norman Nammert acts as an insurance broker. Free for you; the insurer pays our commission.

Frequently asked questions

Questions and answers

Is liability insurance compulsory for mediators in Germany?

The Mediation Act does not require liability insurance.

You can still be liable, for example for breaching disclosure or confidentiality duties or for

errors in the final agreement.

Who may call themselves a certified mediator?

Only someone who has completed training under the ordinance:

at least 130 hours of attendance and five supervised mediations within three years after the

course.

After that, at least 40 hours of further training are needed every four years.

Why is ordinary public liability not enough?

It covers bodily injury and property damage.

The typical loss in mediation is a pure financial loss, which needs professional indemnity cover.

What does mediator insurance cost?

Professional indemnity with a €250,000 limit starts at about €150 a year.

For business mediation with a €1 million limit, €400 to €900 is common, as guide figures.

As a lawyer, am I already covered for mediation?

Often, but not always.

Check that your policy includes mediation as an activity and that the limit suits the values

involved.

What about online mediation?

The same duties apply.

Also use secure conferencing software, because a data breach directly affects confidentiality.

Cyber cover helps with the consequences.

NAMMERT insurance broker

Request quotes for Mediator

The recommended covers are ticked.

Change what does not fit; we compare quotes, in English.

1Who is it for?
2Which insurance?

Choose as many as you like. For each one, the details an insurer needs for a quote appear below.

Personal

Business

3Details

Business liability insurance in Germany (Betriebshaftpflicht)

For example electrical installation in homes, café with outdoor seating, online shop for furniture

For example work at clients' sites, own products, exports to the US, parent company abroad

Professional indemnity insurance in Germany (Berufshaftpflicht)

For example tax adviser with payroll, freelance software developer,

architect for residential buildings

For example current policy abroad, clients in the US, side activities,

expiry date of existing cover

Business legal expenses insurance in Germany (Firmenrechtsschutz)

For example plumbing business, tax practice, online shop for electronics

Existing disputes cannot be insured, but knowing about them helps us advise you

Cyber insurance for businesses in Germany

Rule of thumb: cost of three to four weeks of downtime plus recovery

4Your current policy
5How can we reach you?

Related trades

Lawyer

Lawyer

Is the statutory minimum of 250,000 euros enough?

Boat or yacht? NAMMERT has its own cover concepts for boats, arranged by the same broker.

Boat insurance

Your broker: Norman Nammert, trading as NAMMERT.

Insurance broker licensed under section 34d(1) of the German Trade Regulation Act.

Broker register no. D-C08Q-TOSD4-37.

NAMMERT Assekuradeur GmbH is a separate company.

It does not arrange your contract.

Statutory disclosure (German) · Updated