{"id":54165,"date":"2026-04-23T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/54165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:01:39","slug":"zurich-insurance-clinches-8-1b-deal-for-marine-insurer-beazley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/54165\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Insurance clinches \u00a38.1b deal for marine insurer Beazley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London-listed speciality insurer Beazley said on Wednesday shareholders approved Swiss group Zurich Insurance&#8217;s \u00a38.1 billion ($10.94 billion) all-cash takeover, with 99.9 per cent votes in favour at a meeting held earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition, which follows a series of cyber-focussed investments by Zurich, will help the Swiss insurer significantly expand its foothold in speciality insurance, encompassing areas such as cyber, marine, aviation, space and fine art.<\/p>\n<p>Days after Zurich struck the deal with Beazley, it also agreed to buy Generali&#8217;s Irish PC operations for \u20ac337 million ($394.69 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London-listed speciality insurer Beazley said on Wednesday shareholders approved Swiss group Zurich Insurance&#8217;s \u00a38.1 billion ($10.94 billion) all-cash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[128],"tags":[1766,322,166,197,17,1106,219,249],"class_list":["post-54165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich-insurance","tag-acquisitions","tag-beazley","tag-business-news","tag-europe","tag-switzerland","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zurich-insurance","tag-zurich-insurance-group"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116453211353332447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}