(Reuters) -Italian financial group Unipol posted a 17.8% rise in its first-quarter net profit, which came in at 285 million euros ($319 million).
Italy’s second biggest insurer said its quarterly direct insurance income grew 19% to 5.0 billion euros.
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(Reporting by Alberto Chiumento; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
