A “snowball effect” could leave some construction companies facing major financial challenges despite the slow re-opening of some of their closed worksites, one brokerage warns. In some situations, the damage may already be done, leaving brokers scrambling to help out…
Canadian insurers have rolled out a number of measures to help Canadian homeowners, drivers and business owners in need over the past week, and now Canada’s national broker association is discussing with insurers additional relief measures for commercial clients affected…
Canadian brokers want a uniform response from insurers on how to deal with commercial policies that have a 30-day vacancy or unoccupied clause. Most commercial property policies have such an exclusion, meaning that losses or damage to property is excluded…
As non-essential businesses shutter across Ontario, your commercial business clients can take a few common sense preventative measures to help ensure their insurance coverage remains in place and facilities are maintained. To further contain the spread of COVID-19, Ontario Premier…
Despite Wawanesa’s recent legal victory in a coverage dispute in British Columbia, judges in that province appear to be struggling to interpret the statutory condition on material change in risk. Five years ago, Bob and Linda Schellenberg’s property in Chilliwack…
Why a winter construction fire should give underwriters pause before covering the risk of unfinished buildings
How governments and the industry should broach the delicate topic of expropriation in areas at high risk of flood damage
Another chapter in the sad story of a $2.2-million residential heating fuel oil spill, into a fresh-water lake, has been closed. The Supreme Court of Canada announced this past Thursday it will not hear an appeal from Thompson Fuels of…
Peter Weightman, head of Intact’s specialty unit, shows how the company’s 2017 acquisition of OneBeacon created opportunities in the U.S. for Canadian brokers.
Wages and job openings in the insurance and financial sectors have dropped, Statistics Canada reported recently. The vacancy rate in insurance and finance stood at 2.8% during the first quarter of 2019, down from 3.1% in 2018 Q1, StatsCan said…
VICTORIA – Councillors in Victoria are being asked to authorize demolition of what remains of the Plaza Hotel after a fire that burned for four days in the city’s downtown last month. The three-storey, 108-year-old vacant structure had been designated…
VICTORIA, B.C. – Days after flames tore through a vacant hotel in Victoria, one man is still missing and smoke lingers, forcing the closure of city hall and several other businesses. The fire in the former Victoria Plaza Hotel has…