Insurance risk is the inherent uncertainty regarding the occurrence, amount or timing of insurance liabilities.
The exposure is transferred to Zurich through the underwriting process. Zurich actively seeks to write those risks
it understands and that provide a reasonable opportunity to earn an acceptable profi. Zurich manages the customer
risks it assumes, and minimizes unintended underwriting risks, through such means as:
• Establishing limits for underwriting authority
• Requiring specifi approvals for transactions above established limits or new products
• Using a variety of reserving and modeling methods
• Ceding insurance risk through external proportional or non-proportional reinsurance treaties and facultative
single-risk placement. The Group centrally manages reinsurance treaties