A sustained market hardening in the global reinsurance market is more likely to be caused by economic turmoil than catastrophe losses, according to Willis Re’s ‘1st View’ report.Last year was the second-worst year for catastrophe losses (insured losses in excess…
Psychological impairments can be combined with physical impairments for the purpose of determining whether an injured person meets the 55% threshold for a catastrophic impairment of the whole person, the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled in Kusnierz v. Economical…
Deborah M. Luthi, enterprise risk manager for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, is the president of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) for the 2012 term.Luthi has been a member of RIMS for almost 32 years and on…
Western Financial Group has acquired Roblin Insurance Travel and Realty Agencies Ltd. in Roblin, Manitoba. Founded in 1976, the Roblin brokerage will now operate as a Western Financial Group office. Terry Hawryluk will oversee the branch.“We will be bringing a…
As the newest operating division of Rochon Engineering, eValuate Canada provides a full menu of services geared to make life easier for Canada’s insurance industry. What makes us different? We have the in house engineering resources to simplify the claims…
Rochon Engineering LP is extremely pleased to announce that the Rochon Engineering Laboratory has been ISO 17025 accredited by the Standards Council of Canada. http://www.scc.ca/en/news-events/accreditation-related-notices This high level of testing competency recognized by the International Organization for…
Flooding in Western Canada topped Environment Canada’s list of ‘Top 10 Weather Stories for 2011,’ one step above the devastating wildfire in Slave Lake, Alberta.Overall, severe weather accounted for almost $1.5 billion worth of insurance claims payouts and adjustment expenses,…
Estimated insured damage caused by windstorms that hit southern Alberta in November amounts to at least $200 million, Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) reports, citing a preliminary estimate reported by Property Claim Services Canada (PCS-Canada).Data collected by PCS-Canada, a service…
The U.S. property and casualty industry’s net income plunged to $12.8 billion for the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2011, down from the net income of $33.0 billion for the same period of 2010, according to A.M. Best’s ‘Best’s Special…
Capacity in the global insurance market remains plentiful and across the board rate rises are not being seen, despite record insured catastrophe losses of more than $100 billion in 2011, Marsh reported. In its ‘Global Insurance Market Quarterly Briefing: Q4…
European risk managers generally believe coverage and capacity for supply chain risks is insufficient, according to a survey by the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA). The majority of the 153 respondents were FERMA members in the manufacturing sector.…
Insurers aren’t the only targets in fraudulent health care claims, health care practitioners are also being targeted, warned the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) in a bulletin.FSCO describes a common scenario in which clinic owners/operators and others in the…