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Aviva Canada, ICLR team up for free emergency preparedness mobile app

April 26, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Aviva Canada has partnered with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) for the creation of a free emergency preparedness mobile app. The free Plan & Protect app, announced on Tuesday, can be downloaded to mobile devices, where users will

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Success for insurers involves “dramatic” transformation of workforces and cultures for digital world: Accenture study

April 26, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Insurers who succeed will “do so by dramatically transforming their workforces and cultures to operate in a digital world,” according to a report released on Tuesday by Accenture, a global professional services company providing a broad range of services and

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Don’t underestimate effort needed for successful acquisition: CIP Symposium speaker

April 25, 2016 Jason Contant, Online Editor

Don’t underestimate the effort required to have a major change such an acquisition go through successfully, attendees to the 2016 CIP Society Symposium heard last week. Speaking during an Up Close and Personal session, Surender Sekhon, director of operational underwriting

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Kanetix Ltd. partners with ClientDesk to help insurance industry engage with customers digitally

April 25, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Kanetix Ltd. has partnered with ClientDesk Inc. to offer a new insurance solution to insurance providers, intermediaries and their customers – a mobile self-service technology for policyholders that allows insurance providers to connect with their clients via a mobile app.

Sam Natur, CEO and president of Bullfrog Insurance
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Understanding the changing customer key to helping prevent disruption, CIP Symposium speaker says

April 24, 2016 Jason Contant, Online Editor

Not understanding the changing customer could prove detrimental to the insurance industry, Sam Natur, CEO and president of Bullfrog Insurance, told conference attendees last week at the 2016 CIP Society Symposium in Toronto. “If you think that’s not going to

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Canada’s FirstOnSite Restoration to join forces with U.S.-based Interstate Restoration

April 22, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

FirstOnSite Restoration G.P. Inc. (the general partner of FirstOnSite Restoration L.P.), Canada’s largest independent disaster restoration services provider, announced on Thursday that it has reached a definitive asset purchase agreement with U.S.-based Interstate Restoration LLC. Under the agreement, subject to

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YIPT autonomous vehicles panel addresses product liability, future need for personal auto insurance

April 22, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

The first fully autonomous cars could be in showrooms in a few years, attendees to the Young Insurance Professionals of Toronto (YIPT) second annual Speaker Panel Series heard last week. “You will see the first fully autonomous cars in showrooms

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Personal lines set to dramatically change, but will not disappear altogether: speakers at CIP Symposium

April 22, 2016 Jason Contant, Online Editor

With the number of disruptors entering the insurance industry, personal lines insurance is set to undergo a dramatic transformation, but will likely not disappear altogether, speakers suggested Thursday at the 2016 CIP Society Symposium. Catherine Kargas (picture below right), vice

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Half of CEOs worldwide expect substantial digital transformation, Gartner survey finds

April 21, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Half of CEOs worldwide expect their industries to be “substantially or unrecognizable transformed” by digital change, according to a survey released on Wednesday by Stamford, Conn.-based information technology research and advisory company Gartner Inc. The 2016 CEO Survey: The Year

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OSFI staff ‘very actively engaged’ in international capital standard for insurers: Zelmer

April 20, 2016 Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

An international capital standard for global systemically important insurers is “probably not going to have much of an impact on the Canadian p&c industry,” an official with the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions suggested recently, but Canadian insurers

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Lack of “people focus” hampers financial success of M&A: Willis Towers Watson

April 19, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

More than four in 10 (42% of) polled insurance companies “recognize the critical importance of cultural integration and of hiring and retaining employees to the overall success of a deal,” according to a survey of senior insurance executives conducted by

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UN, World Bank Group and insurance industry join forces for formation of Insurance Development Forum

April 18, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Leaders of the United Nations, the World Bank Group and the global insurance industry on Monday announced the formation of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), which occurred at a high level meeting in Washington, DC, last week. The IDF has