Italy
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Innovation refuses to budge from agenda – Italy
The ability or otherwise of the insurance industry to respond to the changing demands of customers with innovative new products…
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CEO awareness rising but help needed – Italy
The Italian risk managers agree with a rising number of their peers across Europe and worldwide that one key area…
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Prysmatic – Alessandro De Felice, Prysmian Group
Alessandro De Felice is Chief Risk Officer at Prysmian Group, the Milan-based maker of high-technology cables and systems for energy…
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S&P lowers Generali and Allianz SpA ratings on back of Italy downgrade
S&P has lowered its financial strength rating of Generali and Allianz' Italian operation primarily on the back of its decision…
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PERILS estimates Italian 2012 quake at €1.2bn
Catastrophe claims data provider PERILS says that a series of earthquakes that struck the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna last year…
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Brokers must raise environmental liability awareness: Italian expert
Awareness of the expanded risks faced under the EC Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) and other recent environmental rules is now…
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IUMI concern over lack of Concordia report and fears lessons not being learnt
The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) President, Ole Wikborg, is concerned that Italian authorities are yet to publish an…
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AGCS appoints CEO of new Mediterranean business
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has appointed Patrick Thiels to lead its new Mediterranean operation where he will take…
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Rating environment mixed in challenged Italian market says AM Best
The Italian non-life sector saw growth of 2.1% in 2011 with hardening motor rates offsetting flat property and casualty portfolios,…
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Negative outlook for Italian insurers with capital adequacy a concern-Fitch
The outlook for the Italian insurance sector remains negative with the eurozone crisis expected to continue to exert negative pressure…
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Politics & reputation rise up the agenda in Italy–Italy
Politics and reputational risk topped the agenda during the Italian Risk Frontiers roundtable as leading Anra and Ferma members met…
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Politics & reputation rise up the agenda in Italy–Italy
Reputational risk seems to have flown up the corporate risk agenda in recent times as businesses try to manage their…
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Call to arms on supply chain from Italian risk managers–Italy
The risks presented by expansion to new markets, as companies expand further and further abroad in search of new territories…
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Cyber raises fundamental questions about role of risk management–Italy
Cyber risk has been a hot topic in this year’s Risk Frontiers survey and risk managers all over Europe are…
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Moody’s downgrades ratings at Italian insurers due to links to weakened state
Moody’s has downgraded the ratings of three Italian insurance groups and related entities. The downgrades at arms of Generali, Allianz…
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Outlook for Italian insurers stable
The outlook for the Italian property & casualty (P&C) insurance industry remains stable with a predicted improved underwriting performance in…
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EQECAT raises loss estimates for Italian quakes up to €700m
Two large aftershock earthquakes that hit Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region on Tuesday, following a first quake on May 20, have caused…
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Insured losses from Emilia-Romagna, Italy earthquake up to €200m—EQECAT
The magnitude 6 earthquake that struck Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna region last Sunday will likely result in insured losses of around…
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Italian insurers to remain under pressure from sovereign risk and Solvency II
Italian insurers will remain under pressure for the next couple of years as sovereign debt risk and Solvency II take…
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Insurers and risk managers must learn from each other to boost risk industries
According to Enrico Bertagna, a founding member and Chairman of the Unione Giovani Assicuratori e Riassicuratori Italiana (Ugari), that represents…