VANCOUVER – Some Canadian police forces are hesitant to use a federally approved roadside test for marijuana impairment, raising questions about the Liberal government’s decision to give the devices the green light. Vancouver’s police department is among those that won’t…
Machine learning – which some brokers use to make chatbots – can also help companies improve cyber risk by flagging abnormal activity. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence, which mimics human cognition and activities, such as identifying patterns.…
Michel Rodrigue, Cirque du Soleil’s director of risk management and insurance, has received this year’s Donald M. Stuart award, Canada’s highest honour for risk management. Based in Montreal, Cirque du Soleil is an entertainment company that produces spectacular theatrical shows…
We often hear how the property and casualty insurance industry is slow to adopt technology, but is it possible the industry is actually becoming overly reliant on technology? Yes, said Neil Mitchell, CEO of Player’s Health Cover and former managing…
If your corporate client goes under and occupies polluted land, what happens if individual directors are left on the hook to clean up environmental contamination? This is the subject of “long, complex discussions” that Aon Canada brokers are having with…
Canadian workplaces are likely to see an increase in marijuana use but the changes resulting from cannabis legalization next month will be “more evolutionary than revolutionary,” suggests a speaker scheduled to address next month’s Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO)…
OTTAWA – The federal government is speeding up the timelines for the removal of rupture-prone tank cars from Canadian railroads. Ottawa has taken steps to phase out certain types of tank cars following the deadly train derailment and explosions in…
Some Alberta farmers are concerned about their crops after a late-summer snowfall blanketed parts of the province, with more flurries expected in the forecast. Early season snow can squash crops that grow upright, like wheat and barley, make them harder…
Being able to quickly identify a “true” customer compared to a synthetic identity created by a cybercriminal can help insurers tailor offerings to the right customers early in the account creation process, a security engineer said Friday. “If you know…
Some insurance companies “want no part” of covering risks related to cannabis in Canada, an industry analyst warns. As of Oct. 17, it will be legal in Canada for adults to possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis for…
GENEVA – More than half of all workplace tasks will be carried out by machines by 2025, organizers of the Davos economic forum said in a report released Monday that highlights the speed with which the labour market will change…
Clients who make tanks for flammable and hazardous material cannot always obtain insurance covering the full range of product and pollution liability. Matrix Service Company, whose products include above-ground fuel tanks, said Wednesday its products can potentially expose it to…