Claims adjusting firm Sedgwick has appointed Mandy Yousif as director of investigation services in Canada. Ontario-based Yousif will lead Sedgwick’s new research and intelligence division for Canada. Sedgwick’s research and intelligence division allows its team of certified experts to provide…
The Insurance Council of Manitoba (ICM) has fined a licensee from Crawford & Company a total of $10,000 – $5,000, plus an additional $5,000 for the assessed partial investigation costs – for failing to ensure adequate on-site supervision of the…
OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada is keeping its key interest rate target on hold at 0.25 per cent, but warning it won’t stay there for much longer. The trendsetting rate has been at its rock-bottom level since March 2020…
B.C.’s Supreme Court has upheld an insurer’s insistence that a mining company’s business interruption losses were subject to a $10-millon sublimit and not to the full policy limit of $250 million. That said, the court did not agree with the…
The City of Revelstoke, B.C., has been found 35% contributorily negligent for not adhering to a recommendation contained in a 2011 risk management audit, which advised to maintain painted ‘No diving’ signs on a raft in Williamson Lake Park. “The…
OTTAWA – Headline inflation in Canada hit a 30-year high at the end 2021 with warnings from economists that the pace of price increases could rise even higher and stirring expectations of a central bank response before the month is…
Condo insurance premiums in Canada appear to be stabilizing following years of premium and deductible increases. “You should see some flattening, maybe some tapering, in some insurance rates in this sector in the near future for most good risks and…
British Columbia’s costliest severe weather event in provincial history just got more expensive. Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ) confirmed to Canadian Underwriter Friday that the Canadian property and casualty insurance industry expects to pay out $515 million for claims…
WINNIPEG – The grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says the latest court settlement for property owners affected by devastating flooding more than a decade ago is fair. The Manitoba government diverted water from the Assiniboine River to…
Crawford & Company has promoted Victoria Hanson to be its director of sales, National TPA (third party administrator) in Canada. She will report to Jeff Setterington, Crawford Canada’s vice president of sales, effective immediately. “Victoria has a strong proven track…
Heavy snowfall in Ontario isn’t resulting in claim levels associated with a catastrophe event. But time may tell a different story. “We are seeing some increase in auto claims which is typical for snowstorms,” Heather Matthews, chief client officer of…
B.C.’s public insurer is off the hook to pay for vandalism damage done to a car that was jointly owned by the driver and his finance company, because the arrangement between the two car owners was not a true lease.…