All the headlines from our Italy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 23 2011 // A bulletin from the Insurance Information Institute notes that a recent Casualty Actuarial Society seminar advises actuaries that when it comes to pricing global reinsurance business, it’s important to remember that...
Feb 7 2011 // An overseas roadshow by VTB to raise some $3.6 billion got off to a solid start on Monday, lining up Italy’s Assicurazioni Generali SpA as a key shareholder in Russia’s second-largest lender.Investors are...
Jan 26 2011 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a” of...
Dec 15 2010 // Droughts and deluges in Australia, snow in Europe and cold snaps in the United States are pushing up prices of a range of commodities from sugar to heating oil and soybeans.Australia typically ranks as second in the league...
Dec 2 2010 // Zurich North America announced from its Illinois headquarters that its International Surety, Credit & Political Risk group has executed an alliance agreement with SACE, Italy’s insurance and financial group...
Nov 12 2010 // Mark Harman, CEO of Crawford & Company for Continental Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Paul Ogni, Country Manager of Crawford & Company Italia, together with William Bolton, Chairman of Studio Bolton &...
Nov 9 2010 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit rating of “aa-” of Italy’s Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., both...
Jun 18 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “aa” of Allianz S.p.A. (Italy), both with stable outlooks. Best explained that the...
May 18 2010 // Bermuda’s Minister of Finance, the Hon. Paula A. Cox, announced that Bermuda has concluded negotiations for a bilateral agreement with the Italian Republic that will, “upon signing later this year, provide for...
May 12 2010 // The world’s attention has been focused on the plumes of ash that continue to rise into the sky from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The microscopic grit in the ash cloud poses an ongoing threat to...
Apr 15 2010 // A major eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius could result in 8,000 fatalities, 13,000 serious injuries and total economic losses of more than $24 billion, says a new study.According to the Willis Research Network...
Feb 25 2010 // A Milan court convicted three Google Inc executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.Google will appeal the...
Feb 12 2010 // Shares in Italy’s top motor insurers could become more attractive this year because of the likely success of tariff [premium] increases in a market where rivalry from online and bank sales is still weak. Fund...
Oct 13 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A+’ (Superior) and the issuer credit rating of “aa-” of Italy’s Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., both with stable outlooks. Best also...
Oct 8 2009 // New York-based U.S. RE Corporation, the international reinsurance brokerage firm, has formed a strategic alliance with Bruno Sforni S.p.A, an insurance and reinsurance broker located in Milan, Italy. The Company followed...
Jun 2 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “aa” of Allianz S.p.A. (Italy), both with stable outlooks. The ratings reflect the...
Apr 27 2009 // Marsh has appointed Flavio Piccolomini as CEO of Marsh Italy and Emanuele Cordero di Vonzo as General Manager.Piccolomini joins Marsh after 18 years with Willis, where, after holding a number of different positions, he was...
Apr 27 2009 // Last Thursday, April 23, the Willis Research Network (WRN), which is supported by Munich Re, Risk Management Solutions and Swiss Re, held a conference at the General Assembly of European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna....
Apr 10 2009 // Risk Management Solutions’ latest bulletin on the devastating earthquake, which struck Italy on Monday, estimates that “at least one in four homes in the epicentral area of L’Aquila have been...
Apr 7 2009 // The earthquake that struck the Italian city of L’Aquila, the regional capital of Abruzzi in central Italy, is now measured at a strong magnitude 6.3 on the Richter scale, according to Risk Management Solutions...