Daniel Staffelbach
Partner
Attorney at Law
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Direct phone: +41 58 658 56 50
daniel.staffelbach@walderwyss.com
Curriculum Vitae
Daniel Staffelbach is a partner in the Corporate & Commercial Team of Walder Wyss. He counsels Swiss and international clients in all sectors of health care & life sciences and in the insurance industry. His main areas of practice include company and contract law, public law and employment law. He advises his clients and also represents them in litigation.
Born in 1966, Daniel Staffelbach studied law at the University of Berne (attorney 1993). He worked at the Administrative Law Panel Fraubrunnen, at the Court of Appeal of the Canton of Berne and in a law firm in Berne. Furthermore, he worked as a legal counsel at an international insurance company and headed the legal department of a leading healthcare organisation. He also acted as a part-time judge at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court.
Daniel Staffelbach speaks German, English and French. He is registered with the Zurich Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.
Stiftung Kantonsspital Graubünden acquires Klinik Gut AG
wefox closes USD 650m Series C Round
The Federal Supreme Court approves an appeal by the Privatklinik Aadorf
SWICA Healthcare Organisation receives authorisation for telemedical treatment in the Canton of Zurich
AMEOS Group acquires Swiss Hospital Seeklinik Brunnen
BASF acquires Rolic Group
Another success in the TV usage data dispute
Waterland Private Equity has acquired the SENIOcare Group, a leading operator of elderly care and nursing homes in Switzerland
Lindenhof takes over the majority of shares in Sonnenhof Hospitals
Baselbieter Ärztestopp rechtswidrig - Urteil des Kantonsgericht Basel-Landschaft
Zusatzhonorare für Mehrleistungen ausserhalb der Grundversicherung
Teuerungsausgleich in Spitaltarifverträgen im VVG-Bereich
Teuerungsausgleich im VVG-Bereich
Urteil des BVGer C-7017/2015 vom 17. September 2021
COVID-19 vaccination strategy – medical explanation, delegation and abstention
Therapiewahlfreiheit vs. Wirtschaftlichkeitsgebot im Bereich der Spezialitätenliste
Liberté de choix de la thérapie vs principe du caractère économique dans le domaine de la liste des spécialités
Gesundheitseinrichtungen – Verschiebung von nicht dringenden Eingriffen und Therapien
Exceptional assumption of costs for extemporaneous preparations
Auswirkungen der neuen bundesgerichtlichen Rechtsprechung zur Anwendung des Vergaberechts auf Leistungen der spitalexternen Pflege
Change of Pension Fund
Wechsel der Vorsorgeeinrichtung
The "Yasmin" ruling - critical evaluation de lege ferenda
Insurance Litigation 2016 – Switzerland
Insurance Litigation 2015 – Switzerland
New provisions on working hours in the health sector
Video Surveillance
Schweinegrippe und Arbeitsrecht
Short-time employment
Non-competition clauses in termination agreements
Employee participation rights on matters concerning pension funds
Enforceability of non-competition clauses
Commentary to Art. 151–157, 158–163, 492–512 of the Swiss Code of Obligations
Ending an employment relationship by termination agreement
Continuation of wage payments and daily benefits insurance
Age Discrimination II
Age discrimination
Mobbing
Genuine or apparent self-employment?
Productivity, Absences and Insurance of Manpower
Disclosure of Errors in Treatment/Infringement of Medical Due Diligence
New Insurance Law Reforms the Supervision of Insurers in Switzerland
Coordinated hospital planning and distribution of cost between the cantons – Significance of the «closed hospital register» in case of a «medical cause in the broader sense»
Pandemics and employment law
Verschärfte Praxis bei missbräuchlicher Kündigung
The discretion of the authorities in the tariffication according to art. 47 in conjunction with art. 53 of the Swiss Code of Medical Insurance
Insurance Supervision Law (VAG) (English Translation of the Insurance Supervision Law)
Joint Ventures without notification requirement – Avoiding merger control notification
Case note on Federal Insurance Court decision of 20 December 1999 re medical insurance
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