Italy
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AM Best places Generali under review as Italian crisis drags on
Italian corporate risk and insurance managers received bad news this week as rating agency AM Best placed the financial strength…
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Theis urges insurers to step up Solvency II lobbying effort
The European insurance industry must step up its lobbying effort on Solvency II to seek more time to carry out…
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Risk managers urged to climb ladder to help tackle innovation
Risk and insurance managers must shove themselves up the corporate ladder to enable them to do more to help insurers…
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Corporate round-up
JLT combines with Marine & Aviation in Italy as expansion continues and David Batchelor appointed CEO of Marsh’s International Division.
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Jorge Luzzi elected President of Ferma
Jorge Luzzi, Group Risk Management Director for Pirelli worldwide, has been elected as the next president of the Federation of…
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Insurers ill prepared for Solvency II but UK & German p/c segments healthy
Many insurers are ill-prepared for Solvency II and will struggle to meet capital demands, even if its implementation is postponed…
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Conference report- Italian risk managers believe cat market will harden following Japan disaster
Some Italian risk managers—many with first-hand experience in managing earthquake risk in their own country—expect the recent Japan quake to…
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Italian non-life outlook improves as rates start to climb, says Fitch
Improving profitability driven by premium rises and better risk selection by Italian insurance companies has persuaded credit rating agency Fitch…
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EC takes France to court for industrial pollution and threatens Italy
The European Commission is taking France to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as at least 62 of its industrial…
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Corporate round-up
CNA Europe forms joint French and Italian operation and creates pan-European transport team, Liberty expands into commercial lines mid-markets and…
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Stability dominates Italian renewals say big brokers
Italian insurers enjoyed a stable year-end reinsurance renewals round with more rates falling than rising according to the leading reinsurance…
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Stability dominates Italian renewals say big brokers
The Italian insurers enjoyed a stable year-end reinsurance renewals round with more rates falling than rising according to the leading…
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Risk awareness rising in Italy… …but ERM not quite there
The profile of risk management has been raised in most Italian companies but there is still some way to go…
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Risk came, saw and will conquer?-Italy
The global financial crisis has hit Italian companies as hard as any others in Europe and Italian risk managers are…
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Mounting scrutiny on Italian motor insurers reveals concerns
The preliminary findings of the Italian antitrust authority's probe into motor-liability insurance in Italy suggest that the body may act…