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New Ontario financial authority should monitor auto insurers with ‘unusual number’ of LAT appeals: Marshall
April 12, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterNeither the behaviour of personal injury lawyers nor “excess profits” of insurers are to blame for high auto premiums in Ontario, but the government should consider restricting lawyers’ contingency fees, a special advisor to the provincial government suggested in a…
Hospital-based examination centres should provide Ontario auto accident treatment plans: Marshall
April 12, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterOntario should not move to a government-run auto insurance system but the province should establish hospital-based examination centres with authority to establish treatment plans that would have to be provided by the insurers, without dispute, a special advisor to the…
Rule-making authority essential for Ontario’s new FSRA: Cooke
January 20, 2017 by Angela StelmakowichEquipping Ontario’s new Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) with rule-making authority is critically important to ensuring its effectiveness as an independent, flexible and consumer-focused regulator of financial services and pensions, argues George Cooke, chair of the Board of Directors of…
Wider mandate for Ontario’s auto insurance regulator would be welcomed
January 19, 2017 by Angela StelmakowichA wide mandate for the body regulating Ontario’s auto insurance sector – one that promotes competition, innovation and responsiveness – would be welcomed, Karin Ots, senior vice president of regulatory and government relations for Aviva Canada, suggested Thursday during a…
IBC applauds Ontario government’s decision to move forward with creation of new financial services regulator
November 15, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterThe Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is applauding the Ontario government’s decision to move forward with the creation of a new financial services regulator. On Monday, the government of Ontario announced in its 2016 Ontario Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review…
Ontario to introduce legislation to establish new Financial Services Regulatory Authority
November 14, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterThe Ontario government has announced that it will introduce legislation to establish the initial parameters for the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), “a new independent and flexible regulator of financial services and pensions that, once established, would be more consumer-focused…
New Ontario financial services regulator should have anti-fraud authority: Panel
June 20, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterThe Ontario government should establish a new organization that would perform the functions currently performed by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) and the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Ontario (DICO) but also have a “specific fraud-deterrence mandate,” an expert…
Single regulatory approach not the same as one-size-fits-all, CIFF speaker emphasizes
May 30, 2016 Jason Contant, Online EditorA single financial services regulatory approach does not mean a one-size-fits-all approach at all, a speaker stressed last week at the Canadian Insurance Financial Forum at the Allstream Centre in Toronto. Lawrence Ritchie, a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt…