Insurance Law
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course aims to make students achieve: 1) Knowledge and understanding. The student must demonstrate that he/she has acquired a basic knowledge of the fundamental institutes of economics and insurance law. 2) Application skills. The student must demonstrate that he/she has acquired the analytical ability to select, interpret and apply, in a reasoned and legally sustainable way, the institutions of the course to actual cases. 3) Autonomy of Judgment. The student must demonstrate an understanding of the scope and function of the institutions covered by the course and the ability to draw conclusions about the issues raised based on reasoned and legally sustainable analysis. 4) Communication Skills. The student must demonstrate the ability to express the knowledge acquired with argumentative coherence, systematic rigor, and ownership of language. 5) Ability to Learn. The student must demonstrate that he/she has developed learning skills suitable to continue his/her studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student who has profitably learned the subject will have a thorough knowledge of the topics of the course, with the acquisition of a method of reasoning suitable to deal with legal issues more specific and complex with than the institutional notions of the insurance company and the insurance contract.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
After examining the principles and foundations of the economy and insurance business, the course will focus on the legal discipline of the business and insurance company, from the following profiles: access to insurance business; operating conditions (technical provisions, capital requirements and investments); control of the Supervisory Authorities; accounting and balance sheet; extraordinary operations; competition rules; insurance company crisis.
Once the company discipline has been completed, the following will be examined: insurance distribution and the insurance contract (non-life insurance and life insurance).
Once the company discipline has been completed, the following will be examined: insurance distribution and the insurance contract (non-life insurance and life insurance).
Prerequisites for admission
As per the learning regulation of the degree course; in particular, Institutions of Private Law and Constitutional Law are preparatory.
A good knowledge of Corporate Law is required.
A good knowledge of Corporate Law is required.
Teaching methods
The course is structured in lectures, with the attendance of experts as speakers (insurance undertakings; Supervisory Authority).
Teaching Resources
In addition to an updated version of the Italian Code of Private Insurance and the Isvap and Ivass regulations (available on the website www.ivass.it), the reference texts for the exam are as follows:
1) G. BERTI DE MARINIS, L'impresa di assicurazione e la distribuzione dei prodotti assicurativi, in Tratt. dir. civ. comm. Cicu-Messineo, già diretto da Mengoni-Schlesinger, continuato da Roppo-Anelli, L'assicurazione, vol. 1, Milano, Giuffrè, 2023;
2) DONATI-VOLPE PUTZOLU, Manuale di diritto delle assicurazioni, Milano, Giuffrè, ul. ed., capp. XVI-XXVIII.
Recommended reading: A. FLOREANI, Economia delle imprese di assicurazione, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011, capp. I-III.
Further materials (case law and other sources) will be given and discussed in class.
1) G. BERTI DE MARINIS, L'impresa di assicurazione e la distribuzione dei prodotti assicurativi, in Tratt. dir. civ. comm. Cicu-Messineo, già diretto da Mengoni-Schlesinger, continuato da Roppo-Anelli, L'assicurazione, vol. 1, Milano, Giuffrè, 2023;
2) DONATI-VOLPE PUTZOLU, Manuale di diritto delle assicurazioni, Milano, Giuffrè, ul. ed., capp. XVI-XXVIII.
Recommended reading: A. FLOREANI, Economia delle imprese di assicurazione, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011, capp. I-III.
Further materials (case law and other sources) will be given and discussed in class.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exam consists only of an oral test; there are no written tests.
The oral test aims to verify, in addition to knowledge of the notions, the ability to critically address and resolve legal issues by reworking the knowledge acquired.
The oral test aims to verify, in addition to knowledge of the notions, the ability to critically address and resolve legal issues by reworking the knowledge acquired.
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Professor(s)
Reception:
Monday, 14:15
Dipartimento di Diritto Privato e Storia del Diritto - 1° floor