Bremen – Update of December 29, 2020: The legal dispute between Ivan Klasnic, ex-professional of SV Werder Bremen, and the insurance companies of the former club doctors he sued, Dr. Götz Dimanski and Dr. Manju Guha is now apparently over. As the ARD reports, a settlement was reached at the Bremen Higher Regional Court. According to this, the now 40-year-old Klasnic will receive compensation of more than four million euros for his diseased kidney and the health consequences. When asked, Klasnic did not want to comment on the report, but in November 2020 he had already confirmed to the DeichStube that “there will be no further court date”.
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Ex-Werder professional Ivan Klasnic in court settlement: four million euros for a ruined health?
At the end of one that has lasted twelve years Litigation there is now apparently a million dollar comparison. According to information from the “Bild” newspaper, it will be between Ivan Klasnic, Ex-Profi des SV Werder Bremen, and the insurance of the former club doctors he sued, Dr. Götz Dimanski and Dr. Manju Guha amount to a compensation payment of around four million euros.
An agreement between the parties can therefore be expected by the end of November. Upon request of the DeichStube said Ivan Klasnic: “I can confirm that there will be no further court date. But I can’t say anything about the amount. As long as there is no stamp under the papers and the procedure is not over, I do not want to comment further. ”Klasnic (40) had Dimanski, Guha and the internist Prof. Dr. Hermann Holzhüter sued because they were developing in 2002 and 2003 Renal failure with the then SV professional Werder Bremen not recognized and consequently not treated in time. The consequence was a life-threatening illness in the soccer player, who now had to have a donor kidney transplanted three times – the last time in autumn 2017.
Werder Bremen: Ivan Klasnic’s million-dollar lawsuit – decision made in court?
Because Ivan Klasnic through the serious illness possibly escaping lucrative contracts as a football professional, he sued the medical professionals for compensation in the tens of millions. But the process got lost in new reports and counter-reports. In front dish The disputing parties last met in September 2018. At that time, the hearing ended with a settlement proposal by the chairman judge Peter Lüttringhaus. Three million euros for Klasnic – that was the recommended amount. Accompanied by the judge’s advice that the process would extend for more years without a settlement – “and you don’t know whether the plaintiff can still sit here in ten years”.
Now two of those ten years have passed, and the time for one decision seems to have come. An agreement had already been suggested last summer. A continuation of the oral hearing in the appeal proceedings scheduled for June 25 – Ivan Klasnic had in the first instance before Bremen Regional Court won – was suspended at the time, and Klasnic confirmed ongoing talks about a possible settlement. (csa)
