A new member – Atradius Credit Insurance NV Spółka Akcyjna Department in Poland – joins the Polish Insurance Association.

The public as well as non-public hospitals have nowadays the right to cooperate with private insurers, apart from the agreement with the National Health Fund. Commercial agreements of this kind would help to reduce the queues and would provide the system of health care with additional money. The problem is that not all of the health care institutions and their ownershttp://piu.org.pl/admin/projects/edit/group/mainen/page/320/id/482 know that they are entitled to such cooperation.

The last lecture within the scope of „The programme of sharing the insurance knowledge”, organized by the Polish Insurance Association and the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Warsaw University, took place on 13th April.

The second international conference entitled „The insurance in the changing world” took place in the Grange St. Paul’s Hotel in London on 11th June. The host of the all-day long conference was the CEA.

The Polish Insurance Association, together with the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, prepared regulations concerning the procedure of examining claims, within the scope of renting a substitute vehicle, filed in the losses covered by the third-party insurance for the owners of motor vehicles (Polish OC).

Below you will find a gallery of photographs taken at the prize awards gala of the PIU contest for the best seminar papers as well as the journalism contest. We would like to invite you to browse the gallery.

Casus, a compensation office, must apologize and correct all false information about the alleged lowering of claim amount by insurers.

Our draft bill is the first step towards introduction of competition on the healthcare market in Poland. The vision must be focused on the patient.

In the first half of 2010 insurance companies paid over PLN 850 million worth of claims for losses caused by fire and other natural disasters. It is 90% more than a year ago.

Witold Walkowiak has handed in his resignation as the vice-president of the Management Board of the Polish Insurance Association. He will hold his position until September 30th, when we will take on new professional challenges.