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How the pandemic has shown leaders can trust their staff

May 7, 2020 by Adam Malik

Most property and casualty insurance brokers have been working remotely from home for nearly two months, managing a crush of client needs during the novel coronavirus pandemic. In doing so, they have provided a lesson in trust. Serving customers successfully

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How Intact is handling commercial insurance relief measures

May 7, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer is renewing some commercial policies with no changes in price, and is making mid-term policy adjustments to reflect changing risk portfolios under the current economic conditions. The company said in a recent earnings call

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Why Intact says most clients have no pandemic business interruption coverage

May 6, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

Fewer than 1% of the commercial property policies that Intact Financial Corp. writes should incur business interruption claims from the coronavirus pandemic, company officials suggested Wednesday. But the insurer has set aside more than $80 million to account for possible

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Your complete guide to preparing for a return to your offices

May 6, 2020 by David Gambrill

Business continuity plans should consider four main areas while preparing for the P&C industry workforce to return to work in an office setting, KPMG told Canadian Underwriter in an interview Friday. These four areas include: Identifying the people responsible for

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What adopted technology will stick around after the pandemic?

May 6, 2020 by Adam Malik

Now that many insurance professionals have been successful working from home, plenty of technologies they are using now are expected to stick around even after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, according to a number of P&C experts. “The tools we’re using

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Quebec’s brokers act quickly as province moves ahead with plan to re-open economy

May 5, 2020 by Adam Malik

There’s no rush to return to the office for many brokers, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to think about before heading in. While Quebec announced it will start to end its “pause” on the economy — though

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Return to the office: Acknowledging workers’ fear

May 5, 2020 by David Gambrill

As the P&C industry plans to return to the office safely while remaining socially distant, perhaps the greatest challenge lies in accommodating anxious, digitally-empowered employees and clients who aren’t yet ready to return to traditional workplaces while the pandemic is

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Why home fire risk has increased in Ontario

May 5, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS

Ontario’s fire marshal says there’s been an increase in fire deaths this year as COVID-19 measures force many people to stay home and do more home cooking. Jon Pegg says there have been 51 fire fatalities between Jan. 1 and

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Opinion: The dangers around the pandemic of litigation

May 4, 2020 Philip Cook, Chairman, Omega Insurance Holdings Inc.

As we optimistically look forward to at least the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 virus, our industry should start to prepare for the “pandemic of litigation” that will undoubtedly follow. Our property and business interruption policies will be

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How to exclude business interruption during pandemic

May 4, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

If a commercial insurer does not want business interruption covering a pandemic-related exposure, how should the policy be worded? One insurance defence lawyer would advise the carrier to add a section entitled ‘Pandemic/viral/bacterial infection’ to the list of exclusions. “I

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Brokers urged to plan now for eventual return to the office

May 4, 2020 by David Gambrill

Canadian brokers are now turning their minds towards returning back to the office safely while the novel coronavirus pandemic is still underway and a vaccine has yet to be developed. Brokerages across Canada will need to be aware of what

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How COVID-19 will forever change this line of business

May 1, 2020 by Jason Contant

COVID-19 has highlighted the concerns associated with clustering suppliers in one region, such as China. Supply chain risk is one area of insurance that will see changes in the post-pandemic world, according to Tracy McLean, senior vice president of global