Univé

Univé is the result of many mergers. The present company was founded in 1991 by the merger of DLG (Assen) and Novo (Zwolle). A year later health insurer Ziekenfonds Noord-Holland Noord from Alkmaar joined Unive, which has since dissolved again

The affiliated mutuals have a much longer history. The oldest existing mutual (mutual insurance Unive North Groningen BA) was founded in 1794 by Geert Reinders.

Since 1996, Univé has had a website presence on the Internet. In 1997 the first online insurance (a moped policy) was sold.

Criticism

The television program Zembla and TROS Radar paid attention the way Univé uses the agency's own damages expert Compander, which would not operate independently. Because of this insured would be disadvantaged.

On July 25, 2012 the ICT magazine Webwereld published information, in which Univé confirmed that they tried to delete negative information on Wikipedia and included their company's slogan, although this is strictly against Wikipedia guidelines which prohibit using Wikipedia for commercial purposes. However, an Univé spokesperson declared that it was their task to maintain their Wikipedia page. It is unknown if Univé's statement was made out of ignorance of the Wikipedia guidelines, or if they believe that they are not bound by these guidelines which have to be accepted when using Wikipedia.