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Drillers, regulators can lessen earthquakes likely caused by wastewater injection, new research reveals

August 29, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Actions taken by drillers and regulators can lessen risk in the case of earthquakes likely caused by the injection of industrial wastewater deep underground, according to new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Colorado. While

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Mutual insurers seeing revival in recent years: Swiss Re sigma report

August 2, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Mutual insurers’ share of the overall insurance market increased from 24% of direct premiums written in 2007 to just over 26% in 2014, reversing some of the declines of previous decades, according to Swiss Re’s latest sigma report. Released on

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Economic crime in global financial services sector has increased, despite compliance investments: PwC

July 27, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Despite “significantly increasing investment in compliance and being continuously under the scrutiny of regulators,” economic crime in the global financial services sector has increased slightly, showing new thinking is needed to make investment in compliance deliver more value and tackle

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Companies need to come clean about climate change risk, Mark Carney says

July 15, 2016 Colin Perkel - THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO – Only about one-third of the world’s 1,000 largest companies provide effective disclosure of the risks they face due to climate change, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said Friday. Lack of full disclosure, Carney said, makes it difficult

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Insurance Institute of Canada issues “call to action” on driverless vehicles

May 5, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Clear determination of responsibility is essential to ensuring effective insurance coverage of driverless vehicles, but the “next 10 years may have less clarity about responsibility than the past 40 or 50 years,” according to a new report released on Thursday