All the headlines from our Zurich Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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 issues...
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...
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 the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 insurer...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nov 27 2017 // Zurich Insurance Group AG plans to more than double its allocation to impact investments, earmarking $5 billion for a broader range of assets after devoting $2 billion to green bonds in recent years.While it didn’t...
Nov 7 2017 // Zurich North America has appointed David Putz to lead Alternative Markets, effective January 1, 2018. Putz will assume the role currently held by Kathleen Savio, who will become Zurich North America CEO at that same time....
Oct 13 2017 // Public/private partnerships between governments, companies and insurers can help ease income gaps that burden millions of Americans, according to new research from Zurich Insurance Group and the University of...
Oct 9 2017 // Pen Underwriting, the UK managing general agent, has announced a new long-term capacity deal with Zurich in the specialist area of hazardous and tanker transportation, building on a successful partnership that extends back...
Oct 9 2017 // Zurich Insurance will have cut costs by $700 million by the end of the year, nearly halfway to its goal to save $1.5 billion by 2019, Chief Executive Mario Greco said in an interview published on...