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Another unit joined the Polish Insurance Association: RGA International Reinsurance Company Limited, Branch in Poland. At present, the Association gathers 79 units.

Almost 40 people, mainly students participated in the lecture devoted to the idea of private health insurances. The lecture was conducted by Stanisław Borkowski, the Member of the Board of Directors of the Allianz Polska SA.

Another unit joined the Polish Insurance Association: Inter Partner Assistance SA, Branch in Poland. At present, the Association consists of 78 units.

During a special ceremony the prizes of the Polish Insurance Association were awarded in the Leon Kozicki competition for the best MA theses as well as in the journalist competition.
The ceremony was held in Lubomirski Palace, the seat of the Business Center Club. The special guest of the evening was Prof. Jarzy Bralczyk, who gave lecture on the language of insurance. In a humorous way, he attributed the greatest importance to the word “insurance.”

The Polish Insurance Association informs that the Official Journal of the European Union No. L 263/11 from the 7th of October 2009 published a “Directive of the European Parliament the Council 2009/103/EC from the 16th September 2009 on the third party liability insurance or damages resulting from the traffic of motor vehicles and executing the mandatory character of this type of liability insurance.”

The Polish Insurance Association together with the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw have launched the Insurance Knowledge Sharing Programme on Insurances. It is addressed to the students and scientific staff of the faculty as well as the whole University.

The district Court in Warsaw decided to secure the claim of PIU against a compensatory firm Casus. According to that decision, the firm, during the proceedings will be obliged to stop issuing advertisements which mislead customers. The ban concerns all mass media.

PIU starts a national educational campaign focused on the functioning of the insurance market in Poland. Therefore, the PIU established cooperation with the biggest and the most popular women’s magazine “Pani Domu”

For the first time, the Association of Polish Insurance will take part in this year’s edition of the TT Warsaw International Tourism Fair. PIU together with the Polish Insurance Association will organize a discussion panel titled “Touristic Insurance Fund as a guarantee for the protection of tourists and tour-operators.”

The representatives of insurance companies who take part in the race will be competing for the prize of the Polish Insurance Association – PIU Running Cup 2009 – in the 31st edition of the Warsaw Marathon. The insurers can submit their 6-person teams to a relay race – within the scope of the Running Friendly Company programme – which is held every year one day before the main race, that is the Warsaw Marathon.