Overview

• The Bundessozialgericht in Kassel is scheduled to hear the case on Wednesday at 13:00.
• Samuel Koch applied in 2020 to have his injury recognized as an occupational accident under statutory insurance.
• The Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft denied the claim, and the Sozialgericht Mannheim and Landessozialgericht Baden-Württemberg upheld that decision.
• Judges in earlier instances found he was neither an employee nor a comparable insured person, noting he assembled a six-person team and acted as his own director with a promotional motive.
• According to the court, he had an unpaid Mitwirkendenvertrag with ZDF, and he was paralyzed after crashing on the fourth car during the live show on December 4, 2010.