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New Insurance Institute webinar to explore the sharing economy as an “opportunity and a threat” for Canadian p&c industry

May 30, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The Insurance Institute of Canada (IIC) will host a webinar examining the sharing economy as both an opportunity and a threat to the Canadian p&c industry. The webinar is scheduled for June 14 at 1 p.m. EDT. It offers “future-forward

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Sharing economy not fully served by insurance industry, but opportunity is there: Kovacs

April 9, 2017 Jason Contant, Online Editor

The sharing economy is not fully served by the insurance industry right now, but the opportunity is there, Paul Kovacs, founder and executive director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, said on Thursday at the CIP Society Symposium 2017.

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Satisfying unmet customer needs key to helping prevent disruption: CIP Symposium speaker

April 7, 2017 Jason Contant, Online Editor

If the insurance industry doesn’t start meeting unmet customer needs and responding to trends like the sharing economy, new entrants will likely continue to disrupt the industry, attendees to the CIP Society Symposium 2017 heard on Thursday. “The big risk

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Difficult year for Canada’s p&c insurance industry: IBC’s McGown

April 4, 2017 by Angela Stelmakowich

The Fort McMurray wildfire and other large weather events combined with the lowest return on investment (ROI) in decades to produce a very difficult year for Canada’s p&c insurance industry in 2016, David McGown, senior vice president of strategic initiatives

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Canada’s p&c industry sees big jump in underwriting income, big drop in nat-cat losses in 2015: IBC

April 6, 2016 by Angela Stelmakowich

Despite the challenges and fluctuations of 2015 – including plummeting oil prices – Canada’s property and casualty industry “had a relatively good year,” with underwriting income tripling to about $1.7 billion, David McGown, senior vice president of strategic initiatives for