EAST ST. PAUL – Mounties in Manitoba are investigating a large house party in a rural area outside Winnipeg that they say resulted in at least one assault and extensive damage to the property and police vehicles. Red River North…
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government needs to better protect its information systems from internal misuse and outside attacks, the provincial auditor general said Thursday. Tyson Shtykalo’s 21-page report focused on system administrators and other people with deep access to systems…
New board of directors members and executive officers were named by the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada (IBAC) following confirmation of those appointments Sept. 22 during the association’s annual general meeting in St-Andrews-By-The-Sea, N.B. The executive committee will now be…
Brokerage M&A has been hectic so far in 2022, with one firm bringing eight brokerages across Canada under its wing during the summer. Navacord today announced it closed eight acquisitions during July and August that expands the company’s presence in…
A federal government task force on flood insurance is leaning toward the public insurer and layered public insurer models of flood insurance programs for Canada. The public insurer model features a Crown corporation that underwrites comprehensive flood insurance through the…
Navacord Corp. has entered into a new province with the acquisition of Winnipeg-based ONYX Financial Group. ONYX’s portfolio encompasses benefits consulting and wealth management services, “and they have fortified a well-known presence within Manitoba and [northwestern] Ontario because of their…
Personal lines in Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry still appear to be in the grip of a hard market cycle, with both personal auto and property premium rates generally showing high, single-digit rate increases. On average, personal auto quoted…
Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) is warning consumers about the need to protect their vehicles from catalytic converter theft as reports of this type of crime have significantly increased in recent months. According to MPI claims data, the public insurer has…
Taking notes and attaching them to a client’s file as part of an everyday business practice allowed a veteran broker at Wyatt Dowling Insurance Brokers to win a lawsuit launched by her client over two cars that burned up in…
While Europe is experiencing record-breaking heat waves, western Canada had some severe heat and storms of its own between July 16-20. And although they were expected to have caused millions in damage, it won’t breach catastrophe territory, according to Aon’s…
Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) is requesting a small average auto insurance rate decrease, its fourth consecutive annual rate-decrease request. It filed a provisional 2023/24 general rate application with Manitoba’s Public Utilities Board last week, requesting an average rate decrease for…
Despite Interac payment systems and phone lines being down, most businesses will not have insurance coverage for any type of income loss as a result of the national Rogers outage on Friday, says one insurance expert. The outage, which…