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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