Zurich North America honored

Schaumburg-based Zurich North America Commercial's Surety, Credit and Political Risk group has been voted "Best Private Insurer" and "Best Trade Insurer in Asia" for 2010 by the readers of Trade Finance magazine.

This is the ninth consecutive "Best Private Insurer" win for Zurich, an underwriter of political risk and trade credit insurance, and its second time honored as "Best Trade Insurer in Asia."

The unit, based in Washington, D.C., develops coverages for customers investing and trading in more than 150 markets around the world.