Verona, 24 May 2018. The Board of Directors of Cattolica Assicurazioni, which met today in Verona under the chairmanship of Paolo Bedoni, has verified the independence requirements of the Director and CEO Alberto Minali, coopted by the Board on June 1st, 2017 and confirmed by the Annual General Meeting on April 28th, 2018, qualifying him as non-independent Director both on the basis of the matters envisaged by the Code of Conduct, as adopted by the Company, and pursuant to article 147-ter, paragraph 4 and article 148, paragraph 3, of the Legislative Decree no. 58/1998.