KITCHENER (June 11, 2012) – Crawford & Company (Canada) Inc. recently promoted three current officers, the Company announced today. “These individuals bring many years of valuable experience and knowledge to their new positions, as well as a passion and drive…
Toronto, June 2012 – The Insurance Brokers Association of Canada (IBAC) and its member associations are pleased to announce that the premiere sales training program for producers – Elite Force – Best Practices Producer Academy will be offered again in…
Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) laid down the gauntlet against critics of the province’s recommended catastrophic (CAT) impairment definition, accusing them on June 12 of “fear-mongering.” IBC responded quickly to a media campaign mounted by trial lawyers and medical and…
The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) and Alliance of Community Medical and Rehabilitation Providers are launching a media campaign against proposed changes to the definition of a catastrophic impairment for victims injured in car accidents. Currently, accident victims who are…
Ontario’s regulator is recommending to the finance minister that physical impairments should not be combined with psychiatric or mental/behavioural impairments for the purpose of determining a catastrophic injury. Ontario’s regulatory superintendent has thus adopted the recommendations of an expert medical…
University Park, Ill. – June 12, 2012 – Insurance software company Applied Systems announced it will release Epic® 7, the upcoming version of the insurance industry’s fastest-growing agency and brokerage management system, in the first quarter of 2013. The release…
About 66% of Canadians surveyed by Desjardins Financial Security expect to travel within Canada in 2012 and yet almost one-quarter of these travelers aren’t planning on purchasing travel insurance. The 2012 Desjardins Financial Security national health survey surveyed 1,529 Canadians…
Insurance software company Applied Systems has announced it will release Epic 7, the upcoming version of the insurance industry’s agency and brokerage management system, in 2013 Q1. “The release of Epic 7 marks the first time the Epic system will…
TORONTO, June 11, 2012 – Intact Financial Corporation and the University of Waterloo, along with more than 80 experts from across the country, released the Climate Change Adaptation Project report, which provides a roadmap for adaptation in Canada. It projects…
Property and casualty insurers frequently talk about their financial wherewithal to make claims payments following a major earthquake in Canada, but industry rarely mentions if it is prepared to deliver on the promise underlying its earthquake insurance policies, an audience…
Canada will continue to warm by as much as 2 C by 2020 and 4 C by 2050, prompting variable fluctuations in precipitation across the country, notes climate change research presented on June 11 by Intact Financial Corporation and the…
Earthquakes that devastated northern parts of Italy caused $6.25 billion in total economic losses, but the insured damages are still being tabulated, notes a recent catastrophe report from Aon Benfield. “The Italian earthquakes resulted in the largest natural disaster loss…