MISCEIvIvANEOUS INFOR^IATION REIvATING 

 TO INSURANCE AND THRIFT IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 



ITALY. 



I. THE DEVEI.OPMENT OF THE " MUTUA AGRARIA GRANDINE " (i) OF BOI^OGNA. 



Bollcttino delV Associazione Agraria Parmense, No. 17, Parma, 28 April 1917. 



We have already stated, in speaking of the agricultural employers' so- 

 cieties in Italy (2), that their task is not confined to opposing resistance in 

 various forms to the associations of labourers on the land, but that the}' also 

 occupy themselves with organizing within themselves, in the interests of 

 their members, various autonomous departments having economic and 

 technical objects. One of these is the Mutua Agraria Grandine which has its 

 offices at Bologna and was formed in 191 1 by the Federazione Inter provin- 

 ciale Agraria. This mutaal society has adopted an insurance premium com- 

 posed of two quotas, the one fixed, and the other variable but limited and 

 levied only when the fixed premium is insufficient. The society's develop- 

 ment appears in the following table. 



Development of the Mutua A graria Grandine of Bologna. 



Insured Capita! 1 Premiums 



1911 

 I912 



I913 

 I9I4 



I915 

 1916 



liras 



717,120 

 2,928,710 

 6,575,780 



9,734,150 

 12,364,630 



14,405,390 



Indemnities 

 paid 



liras I 



33,554.90! 

 133,111.09 

 298,838.06! 

 571,841.23! 

 618,300.73 

 776,676.051 



liras 



18,475-25 

 136,056.94 

 368,594.62 

 601,880.10 

 452,001.07 

 569,586.12 



Thus in six years the society has paid indemnities amounting to 

 2,146,594.10 liias. It reinsures the greater part of its risks with the Excess 

 Insurance Company of London. 



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2. THE" SOCIETA ITAIvIANA DI MUTUO SOCCORSO CONTRO I DANNI DEIylyA 

 GRANDINE" (3) IN 1916. — Balance sheet for 1016. Milan. The society's printing- 

 press, 191 7. 



This i^ one of the oldest societies in Italy insuring against losses occa- 

 sioned by hail, for it was founded at Milan in 1857. We take the follow- 



(i) Mutual Agricultural Hail Society. 



{2) Sec our issue for April 191 4, pa^e 28. 



(3) Italian Society for Mutual Help against Losses by Hail. 



