Executive Summary: For a multinational insurance company like Zurich Insurance Group, which can find itself delivering large, complex policies in multiple languages to a single international customer, there’s a logical use case for Gen AI’s large language models in providing …
Zurich Insurance Group AG plans to increase headcount in India by 40% over the next three years, adding 600 people following its acquisition of a majority stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.’s general insurance unit. The Swiss firm is pursuing …
Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. has completed the acquisition of a 70% stake in Kotak Mahindra General Insurance Co. Ltd. for US$670 million – marking the largest foreign investment in India’s general insurance market. “The transaction marks the largest foreign investment …
Zurich Insurance Group agreed to sell its iconic office building in downtown Madrid to a Spanish investment fund for about €100 million ($107 million), underscoring the robust demand for real estate in the city. Investment firm Besant Capital has made …
Zurich Insurance Group AG said revenue from property and casualty insurance rose 12% in the first quarter on a like-for-like basis, helped by higher premiums. Gross written premiums in the business rose 9% from a year earlier, as Asia and …
Zurich Insurance Group AG will no longer underwrite new oil and gas projects, and is cracking down on clients planning to expand in metallurgical coal mining. The restrictions also entail asking the highest-emitting corporate customers to reduce their carbon footprints, …
Zurich Insurance posted a better-than-expected annual operating profit on Thursday and announced a share buyback of up to 1.1 billion Swiss francs ($1.25 billion), as insurers ride out the impact of a global pandemic, wars and climate disasters. Operating profit …
Lex Greensill’s fraud and “conspiracy” with commodities tycoon Sanjeev Gupta should prevent the financier’s collapsed bank from making a $400 million claim, Zurich Insurance Group said in a London lawsuit. Greensill Bank AG’s administrators sued Zurich to recoup losses of …
Risk specialists see extreme weather and misinformation as most likely to trigger a global crisis in the next couple of years, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released on Wednesday said. While extreme weather was identified as the bigger risk …
Yes, another year has flown by, and it’s once again time for the top international Insurance Journal stories of 2023. This year, they are a real hodgepodge of topics, ranging from hard market trends, to faulty wind turbines, to the …
