A flood of lawsuits could be on the horizon for German online gambling incumbents, as the High Court of Frankfurt supports a ruling that an online casino customer was entitled to reclaim losses.

Brought to light by German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, a gambler from the region of Hesse had made a claim against a ‘Malta-based operator’ declaring that his losses of approximately €12,000 should be refunded.

Citing a problem-gambling addiction, the gambler made his claim on losses that had been taken during 2017 – four years prior to German Lander settling on the federal laws of the Fourth Interstate Treaty on Gambling (GlüNeuRStv) regime.