British Columbia is holding the largest earthquake drill ever to take place in Canada, with more than 400,000 participating on Jan. 26. The Great British Columbia ShakeOut is being held across the province. Nearly 500,000 people will participate in their…
***CORRECTION: The Capital City Condors are from Kanata, Ontario, not ‘Kenora,’ as previously reported. Canadian Underwriter apologizes for the error. Aviva Canada Inc. has announced the 10 recipients of its second Aviva Community Fund competition. The competition awards a total…
A rare collection of beetles is covered under a “condominium comprehensive” policy, the Court of Quebec found in 2009, prompting McMillan LLP lawyer Hartley Lefton to caution brokers and clients to review their condo insurance carefully.In a January 2010 article…
CARSTAR Automotive Canada has expanded its network in Alberta with the addition of a 10,800-square-foot production area in Calgary East Lake. The Calgary East Lake facility is one of the largest CARSTAR Collision centres in the network. It’s the fourth location co-owned…
The retrocessional reinsurance market is enduring a pricing environment of flat to minus 10% off rate for loss-free cat retro and cat on direct and facultative programs at Jan. 1, 2011 renewals, Guy Carpenter reported. There has been significant international…
Totten Insurance Group Inc. (Totten), one of Hub International Limited (Hub)’s wholesale insurance brokerage operations, has acquired the assets of CULE Insurance (CULE), effective Jan. 31, 2011. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The CULE operations will become part…
Commercial property and casualty insurance rates were flat in 2010 Q4 when compared to the same period of 2009, but a hardening of the commercial P&C insurance market is not imminent, Advisen reported in the Risk and Insurance Management Society…
York Fire & Casualty Insurance Company has implemented Brovada Technologies Inc.’s NexCenter to allow brokers to perform real-time transactions directly from the broker management systems (BMS). NexCenter includes an insurer connectivity module, formerly known as Nexisys, that connects BMS to…
The Canadian operations of RSA drove the insurer’s international growth, with premiums of $1.98 billion in 2010, marking a 22% increase. The personal lines segment of RSA’s Canadian operations saw a 20% increase in premiums last year – including Johnson,…
Lloyd’s of London, an insurer for the City of Westmount in Quebec, is seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Rossy v. The City of Westmount.“Lloyd’s of London considers that the narrow approach…
New Brunswick’s Court of Appeal has ordered the New Brunswick Insurance Board to re-hear an auto rate application submitted by Pembridge Insurance Company in 2009, based on the fact that the board failed to provide reasons for its rate-setting decision.The…
CSN Collision & Glass (CSN) has introduced two new locations in Calgary, Alberta. Concours Collision Crowfoot and Concours Collision South have both become members of CSN Collision & Glass.For 30 years, Concours owner Ken Friesen not only built two successful…