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Corporate sales culture is dominated by “urgent” meetings, phone calls and email messages; so many of them, in fact, that it’s hard to get any work done. Your employers require you to produce outputs, be they financial/claims reports, summaries, policy…

More than one year after rescuers swam from home to home in a low-income neighbourhood devastated by flooding in Grand Forks, B.C., some residents say they were rattled to learn the property buyouts they’ve been waiting for will be based…

  Convincing someone that they could have more coverage than they do now – often for less money – should be a slam dunk. Right? That’s exactly what personal umbrella policies offer. So why aren’t they more popular? Let’s break…

Hub International Ltd. has reached fifth place worldwide on A.M. Best Company Inc.‘s ranking of brokerages. Hub was formed in 1998 through the merger of 11 Canadian brokerages and has since moved its head office to Chicago. It acquired 13…

Marine insurance, one of the “hot lines” in Canadian Underwriter’s forthcoming 2019 Stats Guide, is already falling on some leaner times. “Yes, absolutely,” replied Kent Rowe, vice president of Wedgwood Insurance Limited in St. John’s, Nfld., when asked if he…

Expect the low-interest-rate environment to continue for at least two more years, Swiss Re warned Thursday. “Insurers will continue to operate in a low-interest-rate environment for the next two years at least, meaning that industry profitability will remain under pressure,”…

When it comes to marketing, brokerages and carriers like pairing up with pro sports teams and athletes. For Waterloo, Ont.’s Aha Insurance, which launched in 2017, partnering with a professional sports team seemed like a perfect way to create brand…

CALGARY – The owner of a Calgary gas station is dead after emergency authorities say it appears he was accidentally run over by a vehicle in the station’s car wash. The 64-year-old man was pronounced dead at a Centex outlet…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the landscape for pre-fill data in Canada — literally. “Through artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques… we’re able to train computers to recognize that this is a two-storey structure, not a one-storey structure…

Brokerages need to have a formal workplace relationship policy in place. Otherwise, they’re at risk of things getting messy. Workplace issues like bullying and harassment are challenging enough; the problems are only compounded when you add a relationship to the…

A 40-year-old, Canada-wide cap on pain and suffering awards could be out of date, a personal injury lawyer suggests. The Supreme Court of Canada imposed a $100,000 cap on awards for non-pecuniary damages in 1978, as the personal injury law…

Hub International continued its M&A spree this week with the acquisition of two Edmonton-based firms – one a brokerage and the other a benefit and retirement consulting firm. The Chicago-based global brokerage Tuesday acquired BenefitLink Resource Group Edmonton Holdings Inc.…