Zurich, a leading property and casualty insurance provider in North America and globally,announced Mario Vitale, CEO of Zurich Financial Services’ Global Corporate business division has been selected Honoree of the Year by The Chinese American Insurance Association (CAIA). Vitale will also accept the 2009 Title Sponsorship Award on Zurich’s behalf at the 18th Annual Chinese [...]

Zurich North America Commercial’s Accident & Health (A&H) group and Presidio Reinsurance Group announced today their formation of a strategic relationship to provide a broad range of risk-relief programs to the health care market.
As industry leaders with a long-term commitment to the accident and health industry, Zurich and Presidio will leverage their extensive portfolio of [...]

Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. an international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products in niche areas of the property and casualty market, announced today it is participating in the Fox-Pitt, Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller 2008 Financial Services Conference being held Nov. 19-21 at The Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne, Fla.
Argo Group Chief Executive Officer [...]

Britannia members overwhelmingly endorse plans to merge with The Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) to create new super-mutual.
New business will be the most diversified customer-owned enterprise in
UK financial services, providing ethical alternative to banks
– Strong strategic and cultural fit between the [...]

StanCorp Financial Group, Inc announced it will present at the Annual AIFA Conference. Greg Ness, president, and chief operating officer and Floyd Chadee, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will represent StanCorp and are scheduled to speak at approximately 4:40 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, March 2, 2009. Management will focus on StanCorp’s strategy [...]

Lincoln Financial Group will participate in the Annual Association of Insurance and Financial Analysts (AIFA) Conference on March 2-3, 2009, during the following sessions:
Rob Grubka, head of the individual annuity product team for Lincoln Financial Group, will participate in the retirement panel on Monday, March 2, 2009, at approximately 1:10 p.m. ET.
Dennis Catanzano, vice [...]

Lincoln Financial Group announced that on February 13, 2009, a jury rendered a verdict in a patent infringement lawsuit in favor of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and against three Aegon USA companies: Transamerica Life Insurance Co., Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Co., and Western Reserve Life Assurance Co. of Ohio. The jury found Lincoln’s [...]

A proposed national insurance regulatory office would give the federal government a window into the insurance business and allow it to identify and respond to emerging issues more readily than state insurance departments.
Moreover, a national insurance regulatory office would give Congress the leverage is presently lacks to force action to address new problems.
Promontory Financial Group, [...]

Guidewire Software®, a leading global provider of solutions to property/casualty (general) insurers, announced that Zurich Insurance Company (Zurich Japan), the third largest foreign general insurer in Japan, has selected Guidewire ClaimCenter® as its new end-to-end claims management solution. ClaimCenter is currently being implemented to process Zurich Japan’s auto claims, with plans to extend it [...]

StanCorp Financial Group, Inc.reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2008 of $0.49 per diluted share, compared to $1.21 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2007. Net income for the same periods was $24.0 million and $60.5 million, respectively. After-tax net capital losses were $35.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2008, [...]