CORRECTING and REPLACING Skyball Catch and Risk Management Today

In 1938, Zurich North America (then Maryland Casualty Company) wrote public liability coverage for a record-setting event where a professional baseball player dropped a series of balls from the top of a 708-foot tower to teammates scattered below. Much like the evolution of professional baseball, its players and their equipment, risk management has evolved into a much more sophisticated, systematic process over the last 74 years. This infographic illustrates how risk management considerations would differ if the feat were recreated today. (Graphic: Business Wire)

CORRECTION...by Zurich North America

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--()--Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.

The corrected release reads:

SKYBALL CATCH AND RISK MANAGEMENT TODAY

In 1938, Zurich North America (then Maryland Casualty Company) wrote public liability coverage for a record-setting event where a professional baseball player dropped a series of balls from the top of a 708-foot tower to teammates scattered below. Much like the evolution of professional baseball, its players and their equipment, risk management has evolved into a much more sophisticated, systematic process over the last 74 years. This infographic illustrates how risk management considerations would differ if the feat were recreated today.

About Zurich

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading multi-line insurance provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East as well as other markets. It offers a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services for individuals, small businesses, mid-sized and large companies as well as multinational corporations. Zurich employs about 60,000 people serving customers in more than 170 countries. The Group, formerly known as Zurich Financial Services Group, is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872. The holding company, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN), is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt program which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX. Further information about Zurich is available at www.zurich.com.

In North America, Zurich is a leading commercial property-casualty insurance provider serving the global corporate, large corporate, middle market, specialties and programs sectors. Life insurance offered in the United States is issued by Zurich American Life Insurance Company, an Illinois domestic life insurance company. For more information about the products and services it offers and people Zurich employs around the world, go to http://www.zurichna.com/zna/aboutzurich/zna-home.htm. 2012 marks Zurich's 100 year anniversary of insuring America and the success of its customers, shareholders and employees. Further information about Zurich's 100 year anniversary of insuring America is available at http://www.zurichna.com/100.

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Contacts

Zurich, North America
Jennifer Nowacki, (847) 605-6511
jennifer.nowacki@zurichna.com

Contacts

Zurich, North America
Jennifer Nowacki, (847) 605-6511
jennifer.nowacki@zurichna.com