Zurich Canada News

Zurich North America Names Aviva’s Kundi as Canada Chief Risk Officer

Sonia Kundi has joined the Zurich North America Group Risk Management team as Canada chief risk officer, effective immediately. She reports to North America Chief Risk Officer Colleen Zitt and will be a member of her leadership team. She will …

Zurich Canada Appoints Snider as Head of Risk Services

Chris Snider has been named head of Risk Services for Zurich Canada. Formerly the manager of Risk Services – Property, Snider fills a role that was vacated by Scott Thomas, who was named Head of Human Resources. Snider has been …

Royer Named Head of Liability for Zurich Canada

Marco Royer has been named head of Liability for Zurich Canada. Royer will be responsible for leading the underwriting teams in Zurich Canada’s liability portfolio, including casualty, energy casualty, construction liability, environmental liability and commercial automobile. Royer will also oversee …

Zurich Canada Names Aon’s Royer as Head of Liability

Marco Royer has been named head of Liability for Zurich Canada. Royer will be a member of the Zurich Canada executive team and will report to Zurich Canada CEO Saad Mered. His first day at Zurich will be July 1. …

Zurich Canada Names Steiner from RSA as Head of Property

Yvonne Steiner has been named head of Property for Zurich Canada. Steiner will be a member of the Zurich Canada executive team and will report to Zurich Canada CEO Saad Mered. Her first day at Zurich will be April 15. …

Zurich Canada Names Sommer as Head of Operations

Mathias Sommer has been named head of Operations for Zurich Canada. Sommer had been leading the Operations team as vice president of Operations for Commercial Insurance Canada since September 2017. He will remain based in Toronto and report to Zurich …

Zurich Canada Announces New Organizational Structure, Leadership Team

Zurich Canada announced a new organizational structure and team, which is designed to simplify and strengthen the insurer’s go-to-market approach. “We now have the structure in place to ramp up our support for our customers and brokers in Canada, strengthening …

Zurich Canada Promotes Mered to CEO

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 report to Zurich North …

Zurich Canada Appoints Healey as Sr. VP, Distribution & Regional Management

Zurich Canada has appointed Patrick Healey as senior vice president, Distribution and Regional Management. Healey will be responsible for leading and managing broker relationships and supporting market-facing underwriting colleagues towards the goal of continuing to make Zurich more customer focused, …

Zurich Canada Issues ‘White Paper’ on Drones & Risk Management

Zurich Canada has released a new white paper on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Canada Conference in Québec City. Entitled, “Hovering Over Opportunities: Managing risk with drones, and …