The long-awaited Ministerial Decree regulating catastrophic risk insurance schemes implementing the related provisions under the 2024 Italian Budget Law has been recently published in the Italian official Gazette. Companies...more
On 28 March 2024, IVASS launched a second public consultation on a draft regulation regarding unit and linked insurance products. The purpose of the draft regulation is to lay down the rules aimed at updating, in line with...more
The Italian Budget Law for 2024 introduced important measures that will have an impact on the insurance business. As to the non-life insurance sector, it is provided an obligation for Italian enterprises and branches of...more
IVASS has recently launched a public consultation on a draft regulation providing amendments and integrations to its existing regulations on insurance and reinsurance distribution and on information, advertising and designing...more
IVASS has recently launched a public consultation on a document providing amendments and integrations to some of its secondary regulations, in order to align them to the new European rules on sustainable finance. The IVASS...more
The Italian annual market and competition law - recently published in the Italian official Gazette - provides, among other things, for an amendment in relation to the rules on direct compensation system for motor liability...more
IVASS has launched a public consultation in order to amend certain provisions of IVASS Regulation No. 40/2018 on insurance and reinsurance distribution, in particular regarding professional requirements of insurance...more
IVASS has launched a public consultation on a draft regulation laying down provisions on the use of external experts for the purposes of mystery shopping activities, i.e. the activity carried out incognito by or on assignment...more
On 11 March 2022, IVASS launched a public consultation on a draft regulation which would introduce new provisions governing unit-linked and index-linked policies issued by Italian and foreign insurance undertakings. On the...more
On 28 January 2022, IVASS launched a public consultation on a draft regulation providing rules related to the obligation to communicate to IVASS data and information on non-life premiums collected in Italy by insurance...more
On 23 December 2021 IVASS published a set of clarifications regarding a number of Italian provisions governing the insurance distribution activity. Following a series of meetings held between the Italian insurance...more
On 8 June IVASS launched three public consultations on its draft regulations providing for secondary level legislation regarding insurance and reinsurance distribution, pre-contractual transparency requirements to be met in...more
In a letter to the market published by IVASS yesterday, the Italian insurance regulator expressly clarified that the scope of application of the guidelines set out in a previous letter to the market also includes EU insurance...more
The Italian Insurance Regulator ("IVASS") and the Italian Competition Authority ("AGCM") have taken coordinated actions against certain clauses contained in health and accidents insurance policies that cover permanent...more
After one year from the last coordinated intervention of IVASS and the Bank of Italy in this sector aimed at better protecting policyholders/borrowers, IVASS issued a new letter to the market addressed to insurance...more