Desjardins Group’s Marilyn Horrick has been elected to the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s (OCC) board of directors. OCC president and CEO Rocco Rossi announced new members to the chamber’s board of directors last month. Horrick, senior vice president for Desjardins…
An injured auto driver has lost an appeal against her insurer, which denied benefits a full seven years before she launched her legal challenge against the decision. One notable aspect of the case was whether the claimant received a dispute…
Merger and acquisition activity in the Canadian P&C insurance industry is showing no sign of slowing down in the second half of 2022, with the announcement of four transactions by three brokerages already since the beginning of June. McDougall Insurance…
It’s only natural claims adjusting service levels will drop, given the large number of claims arising from the derecho that struck parts of Ontario and Quebec in May, says the president of the Canadian Independent Adjusters’ Association (CIAA). “Things like…
If the ongoing flooding in Manitoba and the Ontario/Quebec derecho storm of last month taught us anything, it’s that we must change how we think about natural disasters, argue the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction’s Glenn McGillivray, and PhD candidate Korey Pasch,…
The president of the Canadian Independent Adjusters’ Association (CIAA) is hoping other provinces take note of how Ontario’s insurance regulator has approached adjuster capacity and licensing issues following the May 21 derecho that struck Ontario and Quebec. On May 31,…
Ontario courts will declare older non-competition clauses unenforceable if they are unreasonable between the parties due to ambiguity or because the scope of prohibited activities is overly broad, two lawyers write in an analysis of Court of Appeal for Ontario…
Clean Harbors Canada, one of largest hazardous waste haulers in North America, is not on the hook to pay the cost of first-party fire damage to a truck owned and operated by one of its contractors, an Ontario court has…
An Ontario court has rejected the privacy concerns of an auto accidents benefits claimant who refused to attend a psychological examination required by his insurer, finding that the claimant’s privacy concerns amounted to an abuse of process. Ali Baradaran Bagherian…
Manitoba has experienced one of the wettest springs on record, and the back-to-back storms and flooding have stretched adjusters’ resources very thin, claims professionals say. Strong winds and a rainstorm that occurred in Manitoba last evening have continued into today. This event…
TORONTO – Seasonal or higher than normal temperatures across much of the country will offer Canadians a chance to enjoy the summer, but predictions from a prominent national forecaster warn the humidity could welcome a rather stormy few months. Chris…
Canada’s rare and deadly derecho last week seems likely to rank among the country’s Top 10 costliest insured catastrophes, Aon plc predicts. “In Canada, a rare derecho impacted densely populated metropolitan areas in Ontario and Quebec on May 21 that…