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When can a broker fire a client?

April 13, 2022 by Alyssa DiSabatino

On top of selling insurance, brokers are also tasked with managing client relationships. But what happens when a client doesn’t mesh with their broker?   “Sometimes it just doesn’t work out,” says Jack Mazakian, vice president of Advocis Broker Services. “You’re…
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Dave Schioler, CEO of Insurance Brokers Association of Manitoba, to step down in April 2018

April 15, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The Insurance Brokers Association of Manitoba (IBAM) announced on Thursday that CEO Dave Schioler will be stepping down effective April 11, 2018. Noting that he still has much to do at IBAM during what will now be a transition year,…
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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…