Skandia Lebensversicherung AG: cancelling, benefits and complaints
Skandia Lebensversicherung Aktiengesellschaft has its head office in Neu-Isenburg, Germany. The German regulator BaFin lists the company as a life insurer under register number 1157. This page explains where your cancellation must go, how to make a claim and how often customers complained to the regulator.
How to cancel with Skandia Lebensversicherung AG
Send the cancellation to the address printed on your policy schedule (Versicherungsschein). If none is given there, the head office is the right address:
For contracts signed after 30 September 2016 a letter or an email is enough: German law no longer allows consumer contracts to demand more than text form (section 309 no. 13 of the Civil Code). Give your policy number, your name and the date the contract should end, and ask for written confirmation. A German letter is not required, but it avoids delays.
If the contract can be taken out on the insurer's website, the site must also offer a clearly visible cancellation button (section 312k of the Civil Code).
Notice periods by type of policy
Disability, term life, pension and funeral cover
to the end of the current payment period
These contracts can be cancelled at the end of any payment period, so monthly up to yearly depending on how you pay. That is exactly the risk: disability cover given up now is often unobtainable a few years later with a diagnosis on file, and a pension contract surrendered early pays back less than you put in.
Special right to cancel: Instead of cancelling: defer the premium, make the contract paid up or reduce the sum insured.
Notify the insurer with your policy number, in the event of a death without delay.
After a death the insurer usually needs the death certificate and the policy document; the contract states who is the beneficiary.
For a disability claim, medical records and a description of your last occupation are part of it.
Ask which documents are still missing and keep a note of what you sent and when.
The phone number and address for claims are on your policy schedule. If they are missing, use the head office address above.
Complaints about Skandia Lebensversicherung AG to BaFin
Every year BaFin publishes how many complaints it closed about each company, split into eight classes of business. To make the figure meaningful we set it against the number of policies: complaints per 100,000 policies, next to the average of all insurers that report their portfolio.
Class
Year
Complaints
Policies
per 100,000
Market per 100,000
Life insurance
2025
19
179,539
10.58
1.37
Life insurance
2024
26
191,205
13.60
1.52
Life insurance
2023
34
200,874
16.93
1.74
Rank 61 of 61 in Life insurance (2025), by complaints per 100,000 policies, lower is better.
What the figure does and does not say: BaFin does not assess whether a complaint was justified. A single large case can distort a year; BaFin attributes most of the 2025 increase to one single matter. Policy numbers are only shown where the company took more than 10 million euros in premiums in that class the year before, otherwise the table says n/a.
According to its own Solvency and Financial Condition Report for 2025, the own funds of Skandia Lebensversicherung AG covered the solvency capital requirement at 185 per cent. The regulator requires at least 100 per cent.
What Skandia Lebensversicherung AG is licensed to insure
BaFin lists 3 classes of business under Annex 1 of the German Insurance Supervision Act for which the company holds a licence:
19 Life
20 Marriage and birth assurance
21 Unit linked life
A dispute with Skandia Lebensversicherung AG: ombudsman and complaints
The Insurance Ombudsman scheme (Versicherungsombudsmann) is responsible. The procedure is free for consumers. Where the disputed amount is up to 10,000 euros, the decision binds the insurer; it never binds you, and you can still go to court. The limitation period is suspended while the case runs.
Where do I send a cancellation to Skandia Lebensversicherung AG?
To the address on your policy schedule. If none is given there, to the head office: Skandia Lebensversicherung Aktiengesellschaft, Dornhofstraße 36, 63263 Neu-Isenburg. For contracts from October 2016 a letter or email quoting your policy number is enough.
How many complaints were there about Skandia Lebensversicherung AG?
In 2025 BaFin closed 19 complaints about Skandia Lebensversicherung AG (Life insurance 19).
Who supervises Skandia Lebensversicherung AG?
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). It lists the company as a life insurer under register number 1157.
Who mediates in a dispute with Skandia Lebensversicherung AG?
The Insurance Ombudsman scheme (Versicherungsombudsmann) is responsible. The procedure is free for consumers. Where the disputed amount is up to 10,000 euros, the decision binds the insurer; it never binds you, and you can still go to court. The limitation period is suspended while the case runs. You can also complain to BaFin directly. Its consumer line is +49 800 2 100 500, weekdays 8 am to 6 pm.