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Signs of the hardening market in property lines

October 23, 2018 by Jason Contant

One multi-location brokerage in Nova Scotia is seeing hardening of property lines in the province, in line with a recent spike in property claims ratios across the country. Canadian federally regulated insurers have incurred $5.5 billion in property claims up…

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Why this brokerage doesn’t focus on performance-based compensation

October 22, 2018 by Jason Contant

Creating competition in the workplace is not a good environment for growing teamwork and is one of the reasons an independent insurance brokerage in Nova Scotia doesn’t focus on performance-based compensation. “Our notion on compensation is that we are trying…