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Ahead of the Pack

January 5, 2019 Jason Contant, Online Editor

What makes for a stellar workplace? Four insurers reveal key insights into developing happy and motivated workers

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The flood risk that might be unaccounted for

November 19, 2018 by Greg Meckbach

Insurers might be unintentionally covering flood and fire risks arising from computer problems, a cyber expert with a risk modelling firm suggests. “Anything that is related to a computer system could trigger non-cyber losses,” Matt Honea, cyber director for Cyence

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More interest from corporate clients in this specialty coverage

October 25, 2018 by Greg Meckbach

Large corporate clients often face unexpected tax bills in the millions – and companies are looking for insurers willing to share the risk. Aon Canada has meetings scheduled with several Canadian law firms to brief them on how tax insurance

News BrokersMergers and AqcuisitionsRisk

Why you might need an investment banker to help place commercial insurance

October 24, 2018 by Greg Meckbach

If your mid or large-sized commercial clients are involved in mergers and acquisitions, there are risks involved and insurance to address those risks, but it’s not like selling fire insurance. “It is not a simple case of saying, ‘Fill out

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How commercial insurers are addressing this D&O coverage gap

September 21, 2018 by Greg Meckbach

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

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The trick to getting blockchain to work for insurance

July 30, 2018 by Jason Contant

The trick to getting blockchain to work in the insurance space is getting all the players in the market to align and agree on common standards and a way to govern the blockchain, Aon Benfield’s chief information officer said Friday.

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Canada’s uninsurable risk

April 3, 2018 Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

NAFTA’s potential collapse is a huge risk for Canadian exporters. In the absence of an insurance solution, risk managers can show their value by planning creative strategies for a trade disaster scenario.

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Reinsurance, commercial risk solutions revenue increases at Aon

November 1, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Aon plc reported revenues in commercial risk solutions of $917 million in the three months ending Sept. 30, up 3.7% from $884 million during the same period in 2016, while net income dropped 42%. All figures are in United States

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CatIQ enters into agreement with Impact Forecasting to use cat event flood response footprints for Canada

August 11, 2017 Jason Contant, Online Editor

Toronto-based Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ) announced that they have entered into an agreement whereby Impact Forecasting’s cat event response flood footprints for Canada will be made available as a layer on CatIQ’s CatHUB module. “Aon Impact Forecasting’s Canadian

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Global organizations spending almost four times more budget on property-related risks than cyber risks: Aon/Ponemon report

April 25, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Global organizations are spending nearly four times more budget on property-related risks than cyber risks, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Aon plc. The 2017 Cyber Risk Transfer Comparison Global Report also

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Business losses from terrorism shifting away from property damage: Aon

April 6, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Terrorism “linked to” Al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant “remains a critical threat” worldwide, especially in the oil and gas sector, but with a recent trend towards terrorists using vehicles as weapons, the loss to

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Larger liability claims expected to become more expensive, complex: AGCS

March 30, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

There is increasing potential for “larger liability claims to become more expensive, complex and international, demonstrating the pervasive and long-term nature of liability losses,” suggests a new global claims review released Thursday by Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS). Industrial,