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Kathleen Savio to replace Mike Foley as CEO of Zurich North America
21st September 2017
Mike Foley, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zurich North America, a division of Zurich Insurance Group, is to retire from the company and be replaced by Kathleen Savio. Savio is currently President of Zurich North America's Alternative Markets division, and the change is effective January 1st, 2018. She assumed her current ... Read the full article
Alison Martin joins Zurich from Swiss Re as Group Chief Risk Officer
1st September 2017
Zurich Insurance has named Alison Martin as new Group Chief Risk Officer to succeed Cecilia Reyes, she will join the group on October 1st and commence her new role with effect from January 2018. Martin will work closely with Reyes as Group Chief Risk Officer-Designate, before assuming the Group Chief Risk ... Read the full article
Former Swiss Re CEO Liès proposed as new Chairman of Zurich Board
6th July 2017
The Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) Board of Directors has put Michel Liès forward for election as Chairman at the upcoming April, 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM). Lies is proposed to succeed Tom de Swaan who has held the position since 2013 and been a board member since 2006. Tom de Swaan, Chairman of ... Read the full article
SCOR reinsures Zurich’s longevity swap for Skanska pension fund
3rd July 2017
Zurich Assurance has signed a longevity hedge swap with Skanska Construction Services Trustee covering £300 million of liabilities, with Mercer acting as lead advisor to the trustee on the deal. 75% of the longevity hedge was reinsured by SCOR, with Zurich retaining the rest. Jim Sykes, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zurich ... Read the full article
Zurich North America merges Commercial and Specialty units
26th May 2017
Zurich North America has announced plans to merge its Specialty Products business with its North American Commercial Insurance unit to simplify company processes and make product offers more accessible to its clients. The newly expanded unit will be led by Paul Horgan, head of North America Commercial Insurance, who reports to Mike Foley, Chief ... Read the full article
Zurich unit in $2.3bn annuity reinsurance deal with RGA Re
18th May 2017
A subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group has entered into a $2.3 billion reinsurance arrangement on a closed book of annuities with Reinsurance Group of America. The recently announced transaction saw Farmers New World Life, a subsidiary of Zurich, enter into an agreement with Reinsurance Group of America to reinsure a portion ... Read the full article
Major insurers lower retentions, buy more reinsurance
17th February 2017
New reinsurance demand is being seen as some of the world's largest insurance companies lower their retentions on existing layers of reinsurance coverage and expand their programs, buying new layers as well. So far this year it has come to light that insurance giant's Zurich and AIG have both significantly reduced ... Read the full article
Zurich claims on Farmers aggregate reinsurance for first time
9th February 2017
Zurich Insurance Group's fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 results show that the firm had to call on its Farmers Exchanges catastrophe reinsurance treaty for the first time, as catastrophe losses led by Texas storms increased to more than $1.3 billion. The catastrophe reinsurance programme was put in place three years ago with ... Read the full article
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