Zurich Insurance Group announced it is accelerating actions to progress towards a low-carbon economy “amid an increasing climate crisis.” Its actions range from committing to UN targets for global temperature rise, to helping clients cut their exposure to fossil fuels, …
Europe’s biggest insurers refuse to sell policies to coal miners and arms producers. A Dutch firm may go further by denying coverage to gambling companies and nuclear-power generators. The asset-management arm of ASR Nederland NV already has a list of …
Zurich Insurance Group announced the appointment of Conny Kalcher to the position of chief customer officer. She will lead the newly created Customer Office as part of Zurich’s drive to further elevate customer excellence across the organization, said Zurich in …
Zurich Insurance Group said it has completed the acquisition of the life insurance businesses of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ), becoming a major life insurer for retail customers in the Australian market. The A$2.85 billion (US$2 billion) …
Zurich Insurance is on track to meet or beat its financial targets to 2019 and is seeing positive trends in property and casualty (P/C) insurance pricing. Europe’s fifth-biggest insurer made the forecast on Thursday despite a 2 percent fall in …
Zurich Insurance Group’s investment in CoverWallet is bearing fruit, with Zurich now providing insurance for small and medium-sized businesses in Switzerland via CoverWallet’s online platform. CoverWallet uses analytics and state-of-the-art technology to simplify how small businesses buy insurance. Zurich acquired …
Zurich Insurance Group announced that the gold and silver winners for its first global insurtech competition were startups that have developed artificial intelligence-based solutions. Toronto-based Chisel AI was the gold winner for its work in improving the processing of unstructured …
Zurich Insurance’s reported 2018 net income after tax of $3.72 billion, a 24 percent jump from $3.0 billion it reported in 2017 – primarily driven by growth in its life business and improved underwriting in its property and casualty business. …
The $100 million lawsuit that Mondelez, the maker of Oreos and Cadbury chocolate, has brought against Zurich Insurance Group shows that governments should be more careful about identifying the would-be culprits in putative cyber-wars: Such claims can have unintended consequences, …
Zurich Insurance plc has entered into an agreement with Catalina, a specialist acquirer of legacy insurance portfolios, to transfer its pre-2007 UK legacy employers’ liability policies to Catalina. As of December 31, 2017, the portfolio comprised gross liabilities of USD$2 …
