Latest Zurich Headlines
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Zurich Insurance Reports 2% Hike in 9-Month P/C Premiums, Confirms Targets
Nov 8 2018 // Zurich Insurance posted a 2 percent rise in nine-month property and casualty premiums and confirmed its financial targets on Thursday despite a hit from larger-than-expected natural catastrophe losses. “We are...
Zurich North America, Allied Public Risk Partner on Public Sector Program
Oct 23 2018 // Schaumburg, Illinois-based Zurich North America has entered into an agreement with program administrator Allied Public Risk LLC to provide a full range of insurance coverage to select cities, towns, boroughs, counties and...
Zurich North America Names Butt to Lead Casualty for Commercial Insurance
Oct 15 2018 // Valerie Butt has been named Head of Casualty for Zurich North America Commercial Insurance. Butt will lead the casualty business with responsibility for new and renewal business. Butt takes on the role that was vacated...
Reutter Named Head of Construction for Zurich NA
Sep 18 2018 // Insurer Zurich North America has tapped Karen Reutter to lead its Construction unit. Reutter, who recently led the construction practice of a major insurance broker, also worked in Zurich’s construction business from...
Zurich Insurance Begins Competition to Find Cutting-Edge InsurTech Startups
Aug 31 2018 // Zurich Insurance Group believes a competition will help it find cutting-edge startups and entrepreneurs with whom to collaborate in the insurtech space. The Swiss insurer launched what it is calling the Zurich Innovation...
Zurich North America Names Cittadino as Leader in Programs Unit of Alternative Markets
Aug 15 2018 // Zurich North America has named Eric Cittadino as leader for Diversified Programs, Specialty Auto and Aftermarket within the Programs unit of Alternative Markets. He replaces David Banks who has decided to retire at the end...
Zurich Canada Promotes Mered to CEO
Aug 10 2018 // Zurich Insurance announced the appointment of Saad Mered to CEO and chief agent of Zurich Canada, effective Oct. 1, 2018. Mered is currently chief claims officer for Zurich Insurance Group. In his new role, Mered will...
Zurich North America Names PCI’s Manna as Head of Government Relations
Jul 13 2018 // Zurich North America has brought Deirdre Manna on board as the new head of Government and Industry Affairs. Manna leads Zurich’s engagement with elected officials at the state and federal level on public policy...
Zurich Insurance Buys Minority Stake in InsurTech Startup CoverWallet
Jun 11 2018 // Zurich Insurance Group has acquired a minority stake in CoverWallet, a digital business insurance agency startup. CoverWallet, which launched in 2016, said the investment builds on commercial partnership between the two...
More U.S. Firms Follow Europeans in Valuing Apprenticeships to Attract Talent
May 31 2018 // The rise of the apprentice: a European tradition comes to the U.S. The growing number of apprenticeships in the U.S. has more to do with European companies importing the practice into their American operations than with...
XL Catlin’s Benjamin to Head Zurich North America’s Management Solutions Group
May 21 2018 // Brian Benjamin, a longtime insurance executive with experience in professional liability lines, has joined Zurich North America as head of Management Solutions. Benjamin will be accountable for the performance of the...
Zurich Insurance CFO: ‘We Don’t Exist to Do M&A’
May 9 2018 // Zurich Insurance has no plans for a big merger, it said on Wednesday, despite speculation of a pick-up in dealmaking in the industry and that the Swiss company could get involved. The insurer’s comments came as it...
Zurich Insurance Reported to be Preparing to Cut Stake in Malaysian Unit
Apr 26 2018 // Zurich Insurance Group AG is working with advisers to cut its stake in its Malaysian life insurance unit, people with knowledge of the matter said, joining a wave of foreign players planning over $2 billion of such deals...
Zurich North American Names Massey as Head of Programs, Replacing Putz
Mar 9 2018 // Zurich North America has named Greg Massey as the head of Programs, replacing David Putz who became head of Alternative Markets for Zurich at the beginning of the year. The leadership changes come as the company welcomed...
Zurich Insurance Raises Dividend as Cost Cuts Bear Fruit
Feb 8 2018 // Zurich Insurance Group AG overcame a record year for natural-disaster claims in the industry to deliver its first dividend increase since 2011. The shares rose the most since August 2016. Switzerland’s biggest...
Zurich North America Names Labbat to Head Trade Credit and Political Risk
Feb 1 2018 // Zurich North America has named Lillian Labbat as head of Trade Credit and Political Risk. Prior to joining Zurich, Labbat held executive roles in global trade finance, export finance and structured credit with J.P. Morgan,...
Zurich Shares Lessons from First Earn-and-Learn U.S. Apprenticeship Class
Jan 22 2018 // In early 2016, Zurich North America teamed up with William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Ill., to offer an apprenticeship in insurance program and now its first group of employee-students have graduated with a job at...
Zurich Shares Lessons from First Earn-and-Learn U.S. Apprenticeship Class
Jan 8 2018 // In early 2016, Zurich North America teamed up with William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Ill., to offer an apprenticeship in insurance program and now its first group of employee-students have graduated with a job at...
Zurich Insurance to Sell UK Student Insurer Endsleigh to Broker A-Plan
Jan 3 2018 // As part of its ongoing restructuring and simplification program, Zurich Insurance announced an agreement to sell its UK student insurer Endsleigh to insurance broker A-Plan Holdings. The financial terms of the deal, which...
Zurich Insurance to Acquire ANZ’s Life Businesses in Australia for US$2.14B
Dec 11 2017 // Zurich Insurance Group announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 percent of ANZ’s life insurance businesses, OnePath Life, in Australia, for A$2.85 billion (US$2.14 billion). Both parties expect...
