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Court approves insurer’s settlement over COVID flight cancellations

February 23, 2023 by David Gambrill

Ontario’s Superior Court has approved a $4.8-million settlement in a class action lawsuit related to the denial of travel insurance claims by TD Home and Auto Insurance for cancelled flights during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. During that

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WestJet reports disclosure of rewards program data from unauthorized third party

July 31, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

WestJet reported on Friday that it has “become aware that some WestJet Rewards member profile data has been disclosed online by an unauthorized third party.” None of the data contained credit card or banking information, Calgary-based WestJet noted in a

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Southern U.S. crop losses from March storm could exceed $1 billion: Aon

April 7, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

A weather system that brought sub-freezing temperatures to South Carolina and Georgia, as well as heavy rains in Peru were among the catastrophes with economic losses exceeding $1 billion in March, Aon plc’s Impact Forecasting unit reported Friday in its

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States of emergency declared in Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas ahead of winter storm

January 6, 2017 Jeff Martin and Tom Foreman Jr. - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA – Shoppers emptied shelves of bread and milk, road workers began working 12-hour shifts, and states of emergency were declared in Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas ahead of a winter storm stalking the South. Winter storm warnings were issued