Zurich

Zurich Insurance Group has begun a process to bring its life and non-life insurance business closer together with a restructure of its senior management and businesses globally.

Openwork and Zurich have signed an agreement that will see the insurer divest its 25% shareholding in the network within the next four years.

Zurich UK Life has announced the appointment of Helen Pickford as chief financial officer (CFO).

Fiona Murphy finds a ‘vibrant' and ‘growing' whole-of-life market compared with its term assurance sister

Zurich has revealed that it paid out over £212.5m in claims over 2,500 retail protection customers and their families during 2015, an increase from 11% from £191m in 2014.

The chief executive of Zurich's UK Life division, Gary Shaughnessy, has been promoted to head the division globally.

Zurich's Richard Sadler looks at how technical innovations are affecting the way in which people buy protection products.

Zurich has confirmed proposals to cut up to 440 jobs in its UK general insurance business as part of a programme to reduce costs in the organisation and simplify its operating structure.

Zurich has withdrawn its £5.6bn bid for rival firm RSA group after suffering losses in its general insurance business.

Zurich's Richard Moodey has urged brokers to ‘step up' and sell more income protection (IP) policies as the Mortgage Market Review has caused dwindling competition within the adviser community.