Insurance companies in Switzerland

Swiss Life

The Swiss Life Group is one of Europe’s leading comprehensive life and pensions and financial solutions providers.

Their business areas include Life insurance, risk, pensions and financial solutions for private and corporate clients, health insurance (France only), asset management.

The Swiss Life Group is present in the core markets of Switzerland, Germany and France and it has competency centres in Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Singapore. The Group is also present in other European countries through Swiss Life Select

Bâloise

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the Baloise Group is a European provider of insurance and pension solutions. It positions itself as an insurer with an intelligent risk-prevention concept, the “Safety World”.

In Switzerland, the Group operates as a specialised financial services provider offering a combination of insurance and banking services. The Group also has a market presence in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.

Its distribution network includes its own sales organisation as well as brokers and other partners. Baloise operates its innovative life and pensions business for private customers throughout Europe, with its competence centre in Luxembourg.

Helsana

The Helsana Group is Switzerland’s leading health and accident insurer. It offers individuals and enterprises a complete health and prevention service in the event of sickness and accident.

With CHF 5.7 billion in earned premiums, the company is one of the leading providers in the Swiss insurance market. The Helsana Group provides basic, supplementary and accident insurance and operates throughout Switzerland, employing more than 3,000 employees.

It is not listed on the stock exchange and is organised as a holding. The Helsana Group comprises Helsana, Progrès, Sansan, Avanex and Maxi.ch.

Zurich Insurance Group

Founded in Switzerland in 1872, Zurich is one of the world’s most experienced insurers.

Their customers choose Zurich to protect the people and things they love because they value their knowledge, expertise and stability. Zurich has three core business segments – General Insurance, Global Life, and Farmers.

The other companies that complete this list of top 9 best insurance companies in Switzerland includes the following:

ACE Limited

ACE Group is one of the world’s largest multiline property and casualty insurers. With operations in 54 countries, ACE provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients.

The insurance companies of ACE Group serve multinational corporations and local businesses with property and casualty insurance and services; companies and affinity groups providing or offering accident and health insurance programs and life insurance to their employees or members.

Also they provide insurers managing exposures with reinsurance coverage; and individuals purchasing life, personal accident, supplemental health, homeowners, automobile and other specialty insurance coverage.

Swiss Re

The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations and public sector clients.

From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines of business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise and innovation power to enable the risk taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend.

In many ways, Swiss Re’s history and the history of reinsurance have been one narrative.

Winterthur Group

AXA offers private individuals and corporate customers a broad range of personal, property, and liability insurance solutions as well as customized life, pension and investment products.

The company employs around 4000 people. Its sales network consists of 277 independent general agencies and agents, with approximately 2650 employees working exclusively for AXA. The head office is located in Winterthur.

AXA Winterthur is the only Swiss insurance company with its own accident research center and has been promoting safety in road traffic for many years. Also it has the densest sales network of all Swiss insurance companies.

Helvetia Insurance

Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful insurance group that does business everywhere in Europe.

Today, Helvetia has branch offices in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy and France, and routes some of its investment and financing activities through subsidiaries and fund companies in Luxembourg and Jersey. The Group is headquartered in St.Gallen.

Helvetia is active in the life, property and casualty and reinsurance business, and almost 7’000 employees provide services to more than 4.7 million customers.