PRIVATE INSURANCE LAW

The course is an interdisciplinary one in Master's Degree in Economics and Finance, in the homonyum curriculum.
The course aims at explaning insurance companies and insurance contracts, including insurance investment products.

1. Knowledge and understanding
1.1 Knowledge of insurance company in its different forms.
1.2 Knowledge and analysis of the organisational and functional structure of insurance companies.
1.3 Knowledge and analysis of insurance contracts.

2. Applied skills of knowledge and understanding
2.1 Ability to interpret and apply insurance law, in particular with regard to licensing, allowed activities, ownership, management requirement..
2.2 Ability to identify proper rules for every figure of insurance company and to apply conduct rules, also deriving from codes of ethic.
2.3 Ability to identify proper rules for every insurance contract.

3. Evaluation
3.1 Comprehension of the text of the law.
3.2 Ability to analyse legal consequences of every insurance enterprise’s form choice.
3.3 Ability to balance the different interests concerning the different insurance contracts.

4. Communication skills
4.1 Proper reporting of the specific features of insurance law.
4.2 Critical and dialogical interaction with the examiners during the examination.

Students are expeted to know the contents of the courses of Private Law and Business/Commercial (and Economic) Law.

Insurance contracts and insurance companies in:

- Civil code;
- Code of Private Insurance;
- Consolidated Law on Finance.

Code of Private Insurance (edition updated).

DONATI-VOLPE PUTZOLU, Manuale di diritto delle assicurazioni, 12th edit., Milano, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2019, pp. 1-238
or
L. FARENGA, Diritto delle assicurazioni private, 6th ed., Torino, Giappichelli, 2019, pp. 1-292.

Additional learning material will be uploaded to Moodle platform.

The final exam consists exclusively in an oral test in order to verify the knowledge and comprehension of the course contents, the proper reporting of them and the ability of consulting legal texts.

Regarding grade graduation (mode by which grades will be assigned), regardless of attending or non-attending mode:
A. scores in the 18-22 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- sufficient knowledge and applied comprehension skills with reference to the syllabus;
- limited ability to collect and/or interpret data, making independent judgments;
- sufficient communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the discipline of insurance undertakings;
B. scores in the 23-26 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- fair knowledge and applied comprehension skills with reference to the syllabus;
- discrete ability to collect and/or interpret data, making independent judgments;
- fair communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the discipline of insurance undertakings.
C. scores in the 27-30 range will be awarded in the presence of:
- good or very good knowledge and applied understanding with reference to the syllabus;
- good or excellent ability to collect and/or interpret data, making independent judgments;
- fully appropriate communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the discipline of insurance undertakings.
D. honors will be awarded in the presence of knowledge and applied understanding with reference to the syllabus, judgment and communication skills, excellent.

Frontal lecture and teacher-students interaction.

Italian

Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion
Accommodation and support services for students with disabilities and students with specific learning impairments

Ca' Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.

The course is in cooperation with Assi.Cra Veneto S.r.l.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development