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How insurers will handle new third-party risk-management guideline

May 18, 2023 by Alyssa DiSabatino

Canada’s financial solvency regulator’s new guideline for managing risks associated with third parties (including brokers) will require insurers to find a ‘balance point’ for compliance, one industry expert said.  The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Guideline B-10: Third-Party

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How OSFI expects insurers to manage climate-related risks

March 7, 2023 by Alyssa DiSabatino

Canada’s federal solvency regulator wants, among other things, P&C insurers to develop and implement a plan to maintain operations during climate-related disasters, climate scenario analysis as a part of their stress testing, and metrics on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The

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OSFI posts new guidance on climate risk stress testing

May 26, 2022 by Alyssa DiSabatino

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institution’s (OSFI) newly released draft of Climate Risk Management may mean P&C insurers will have to include climate scenario analysis as a part of their stress testing — and it may require insurers to

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What industry-wide claims ratios were like for the first half of 2021

August 30, 2021 by Greg Meckbach

Canada’s federally-regulated property and casualty insurers collectively made an after-tax profit of $4.23 billion on direct written premiums of nearly $32 billion during the first half of 2021, recently-released regulatory data shows. Most major lines had claims ratios below 55%.

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Why solvency regulator is concerned about ‘black box’ underwriting

December 4, 2019 by Greg Meckbach

Concerned about whether “black box” underwriting methods based on artificial intelligence are good for your clients? So is Canada’s federal insurance regulator. “We get a lot of questions around AI and what are we to do about it,” said Neville

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When OSFI will talk to industry about draft reinsurance rules

November 29, 2019 by Greg Meckbach

The federal insurance regulator – silent during the election campaign on proposed changes to reinsurance – plans to talk to the industry after the holidays, a senior official with the federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) said

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OSFI’s ticking time bomb

November 1, 2019 David Gambrill, Editor in Chief

Canada’s solvency regulator and the property and casualty insurance industry are working to defuse a potentially explosive situation – one that could
see global reinsurance capital fleeing from Canada. What will be the outcome of this ticking regulatory time bomb?

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Reinsurance Protectionism

January 4, 2019 David Gambrill, Editor-in-Chief

Will OSFI proposals take the “global” out of global reinsurance?

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Power of Small

November 2, 2018 David Gambrill, Editor-in-Chief

Canada’s reinsurance marketplace, featuring a relatively small piece of the global premium pie, creates a challenge for reinsurers to grow their business. So why do reinsurers remain optimistic about their future prospects?

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Regulatory Reform

October 26, 2017 Brian Reeve, Partner, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Insurance regulatory frameworks are becoming disrupted as new technologies and the rise of social media are changing the way insurance is bought and sold.

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Insurers should ensure consumers are ‘better able to understand’ home insurance policies: CCIR

August 9, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

In a paper released Wednesday, Canada’s insurance regulators’ association suggests that insurers need to better educate consumers so they can understand the terms – including limitations, exclusions and deductibles – of their property insurance contracts, while sharing aggregated property risk

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Investment income doubles for Canadian P&C industry: MSA

June 27, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The Canadian property and casualty insurance industry had essentially no underwriting income during the first three months of the year but Q1 net investment income more than doubled year over year, figures from a report from MSA Research Inc. suggest.