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Why it took four years to add snow removal contractor as a defendant in this slip-and-fall claim

January 4, 2021 by Greg Meckbach

A landscaping firm with a contract to spread salt and sand during the winter has been added as a defendant in a personal injury lawsuit in Ontario more than four years after an alleged slip-and-fall accident. 1323765 Ontario Inc., which

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AXA XL brings in new Canadian country manager

December 16, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Renato Rodrigues is AXA XL’s new country manager for Canada, the Paris-based insurer announced Wednesday. Rodrigues (pictured), who previously led AXA XL’s Latin American insurance business, will be moving to Toronto from Sao Paulo, Brazil, once the COVID-19 restrictions enable

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What brokers need to do to place hospitality coverage

December 16, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

When it comes to the hospitality sector, insurers’ risk appetites are constantly changing and underwriters are especially concerned about clients who get most of their revenue from alcohol, a managing general agent reports. “A broker has to spend a lot

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Taming Social Inflation

December 16, 2020 by Adam Malik, Managing Editor

Social inflation essentially describes insurers’ increasing legal costs. Why insurers are pinning this primarily on the rise of litigation funding

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Why the D&O market will probably get harder

December 15, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Data breaches and the impact of COVID-19 on a company’s financial performance are among the “megatrends” affecting directors’ and officers’ liability claims, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty warned in a report released Dec. 15. “Outside the U.S., securities class actions

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Christmas movies that would benefit from insurance coverage

December 14, 2020 by Jason Contant

It’s less than two weeks until Christmas, and insurance professionals are looking forward to some downtime following an unprecedented year. The 2020 holiday season may look different this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s a good bet

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Feeling more like a career counsellor than a broker these days? That’s not a bad thing.

December 14, 2020 by Adam Malik

Based on estimates of 160,000 Canadian small businesses at risk of closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic — or even as many as 225,000 closures, per the Canadian Federation of Independent Business — brokers have a part to play in

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The latest M&A news from BFL, NFP and Hub

December 11, 2020 by Jason Contant

A year-and-a-half after large commercial brokerage BFL Canada acquired Summit Insurance Brokers, the smaller British Columbia-based brokerage has officially been rebranded to BFL Canada Insurance Services Inc. “As of now, all the operations led in Central and Northern British Columbia

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The show must go on

December 11, 2020 by Scott Carroll, Executive Vice President, Program Director, Take1 Insurance

The new COVID landscape means looking for alternative ways to mitigate claims risk at live events

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Tragic, yes, but COVID-19 didn’t change the insurance world: Co-Operators CEO

December 10, 2020 by Adam Malik

The insurance industry should not be surprised by the fact there was a global health pandemic, a senior P&C industry exec says, adding that COVID-19 is not likely to change industry fundamentals significantly, since nothing new was brought to the

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Will Ontario’s new law result in a flurry of snow removal capacity?

December 9, 2020 by David Gambrill

On the day before heavy, wet snow and slush graced the streets of southern Ontario, the provincial government passed a law Tuesday that brokers believe will make it easier for them to find insurance coverage for snow removal contractors. The

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What underwriters can do to help brokers during a hard market

December 9, 2020 by Adam Malik

They say timing is everything, and that is particularly true of brokers working with underwriters. The earlier underwriters can tell brokers about the market challenges they are facing, what they deem to be an important part of a submission, and