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Why insurance regulators’ council wants to stop best-terms pricing

December 3, 2021 by Greg Meckbach

If you are still placing subscription policies using best-terms pricing, you should stop, the Canadian Council of Insurance regulators suggests. “Fair and transparent pricing is essential to a successful marketplace and CCIR Members expect insurers and brokers to cease BTP

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Insurers should ensure consumers are ‘better able to understand’ home insurance policies: CCIR

August 9, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

In a paper released Wednesday, Canada’s insurance regulators’ association suggests that insurers need to better educate consumers so they can understand the terms – including limitations, exclusions and deductibles – of their property insurance contracts, while sharing aggregated property risk

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Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators releases 2017-2020 strategic plan

June 28, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators (CCIR) has published its strategic plan for 2017-2020, which focuses its efforts on cooperative supervisory activities, fair treatment of consumers, risks and coverages related to nat cats, and a cooperative approach to financial services

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Aviva Canada’s 24-hour Broker Hackathon results in small business online quoting and binding solution

November 25, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Aviva Canada’s recent Broker Hackathon has chosen its People’s Choice and Winner from a total of 61 submissions: Commercial Catalyst, a “simple, quick and easy way for brokers and customers to quote and bind small commercial business” and a responsive

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Insurance industry moving too slowly, must keep pace: Forgeron

October 25, 2016 Angela Stelmakowich, Editor

Canada’s property and casualty industry – in need of a regulatory environment that fosters the innovation and responsiveness consumers are demanding – is at risk of losing pace to new competitors, Don Forgeron, president and CEO of Insurance Bureau of

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OSFI staff ‘very actively engaged’ in international capital standard for insurers: Zelmer

April 20, 2016 Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

An international capital standard for global systemically important insurers is “probably not going to have much of an impact on the Canadian p&c industry,” an official with the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions suggested recently, but Canadian insurers

Patrick Déry, Chair, Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators, and Superintendent, Solvency, Autorité des marchés financiers
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Conduct Becoming

March 11, 2016 Patrick Déry, Chair, Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators, and Superintendent, Solvency, Autorité des marchés financiers

Insurance regulators in Canada have taken an important step forward with the recent adoption of a new, co-operative supervision framework for market conduct. The framework provides the foundation required to continue the central mandate to serve consumers at a time when the insurance marketplace is evolving and experiencing rapid change.