Hello Mark,

I am what you would call in England a qualified structural engineer. In Italy before you can work as an engineer you must do an examination (called esame di stato), without this examination you can not take the full responsability for your own projects, this means that you can not put your name on your own projects. not interesting I would say. I'm inscribed at the Ordine degli ingegneri di Arezzo at number 1446.
About the insurance yes of course all the architects, engineers must have it.

Hope to hear you back soon

Gunther