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Law and claims handling abroad
First section
International Claims Handling:
“Green-Card” and 4th Motor Directive
Second section
Act 57/2001, 5th EU Motor Directive: Consequences on Claims Handling
Third section
Hospital- and Medical Practitioner Liability Claims under aspects of European jurisdiction

Milan, 4th May 2005

Rossini Saal – 7th Floor, Excelsior Hotel Gallia, Piazza Duca D’Aosta 9

 

Chairman
Antonio Furlanetto
Managing Director, InterEurope Italia

Speakers:

  • Holger Backu, Solicitor, Member of the Board
    InterEurope AG European Law Service, Düsseldorf
  • Roberto Carducci, Solicitor, Rome
  • Giovanni Comandè, Professor ”Scuola Superiore
    di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento S. Anna”, Pisa
  • Daniela Fattori, Head of Foreign Claims Department, Società Cattolica di Assicurazioni, Verona
  • Nicola Gentile, Solicitor, ISVAP (Insurance Supervisory Authority), Rome
  • Eftichia Leontopoulou, Speaker of the Board,
    InterEurope AG European Law Service, Düsseldorf
  • Plinio Pinna Pintor, Cardiologist, President of the Hospital Pinna Pintor, Turin
  • Giulio Ponzanelli, Solicitor, Mailand, Professor University of Brescia
  • Massimo Treffiletti, Head of the Claims Department, ANIA (Association of Insurer), Milan
  • Antonio Zotti, Head of Foreign Claims Department, HDI Assicurazioni, Rome

Agenda

First Section
The matter of the so-called reciprocity in claims handling abroad
Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
5th EU Motor Directive: Court of Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
Court of Jurisdiction in the Third Party Homecountry and applicable law?
Applicability of “lex damni”?
10.00

Presentation of InterEurope AG European Law Service
Dr. Eftichia Leontopoulou

10.15

Special explanatory notes of claims handling abroad
Solicitor Roberto Carducci

11.00

Point of view and comments of “ANIA”
Dr. Massimo Treffiletti
11.30 Coffee break
11.45 Court of Jurisdiction concerned, applicable law and 5th EU Motor Directive
Solicitor Holger Backu
12.30

Discussion
12.45

Lunch in Saloon “Bellini”
Second Section
Claims Handling of Green-Card and 4th EU Motor Directive Files:
Experience of Motor Insurers
Application of time limits and penalties of the Act 57/2001 for the handling of foreign claims
Time limits, Penalties, Liability and the task of the Supervisor Authority
14.00 Experience of Società Cattolica di Assicurazioni
Dr. Daniela Fattori
14.15 Experience of HDI Assicurazioni
Dr. Antonio Zotti
14.30 Foreign Claims Handling: Breach of acts and penalties
Solicitor Nicola Gentile
Third Section
Hospital- and Medical Practitioner Liability Claims: Processing of the liability claims and legislation under international aspects
15.00 Introduction
Dr. Antonio Furlanetto
15.15 Compulsory Insurance: Conceptions for an act of parliament
Prof. Giulio Ponzanelli
15.45 Coffee Break
16.00 Hospital- and Medical Practitioner Liability: Quantifying the business risk and alternative solutions beyond liability and Liability Insurers
Prof. Giovanni Comandè
16.45 The avoidable failure and the medical malpractice from the view point of the Patient, medical practitioner and the manager. An example of perceptions.
Prof. Plinio Pinna Pintor
17.15 Discussion and conclusion
17.45 End of the conference

 

    
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