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Crawford licensee ordered to pay $10K for supervision mix-ups

January 26, 2022 by Alyssa DiSabatino

The Insurance Council of Manitoba (ICM) has fined a licensee from Crawford & Company a total of $10,000 – $5,000, plus an additional $5,000 for the assessed partial investigation costs – for failing to ensure adequate on-site supervision of the

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Loss adjusting firm promotes new president

January 7, 2022 by Alyssa DiSabatino

Greg Smith has been promoted to president of Crawford & Company, Canada. Smith’s 25-year tenure at Crawford began as director/manager of marketing. Prior to his promotion, he most recently held the positions of chief operating officer in 2021 and chief

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Hackers don’t care about your client’s data. Here’s what they really care about…

March 8, 2021 by Jason Contant

Businesses falling victim to cyberattacks often don’t realize that the value of data they store is not what’s important to hackers, it’s the value of the data to the company, Crawford & Company (Canada) said in a recent whitepaper. “It

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Flash storm hits same areas of Toronto as in 2013 Cat event. Was the damage the same?

July 9, 2020 by Adam Malik

Toronto is drying out from another sudden thunderstorm, but claims professionals may have dodged an even bigger workload thanks to the storm quickly moving out. “We’ve seen worse,” Glenn McGillivray, managing director at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR),

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Calgary hail damage ‘pretty startling’ to this adjuster

June 19, 2020 by Greg Meckbach

If you have clients in the Calgary area who suffered property damage in the June 13 hail storm, they could be waiting a while to get their properties repaired, an executive for one independent adjusting firm suggests. “There are tens

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How today’s rail blockades could change tomorrow’s policies

February 19, 2020 by Adam Malik

Based on Canada’s railway blockades, commercial clients that haven’t considered insurance coverage in the event of unforeseen disruption might be more keen to discuss their options going forward, according to industry experts. The ongoing railway blockades across the country –

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Crawford’s Top 3 claim loss predictions from marijuana legalization

October 18, 2018 by Jason Contant

Claims adjuster Crawford & Company (Canada) Inc. sees auto, commercial and workplace-related losses as the Top 3 claims arising from the legalization of marijuana. Auto losses related to cannabis usage; commercial losses to cannabis producers, retailers and distributors; and employee

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Tornado damage: View from the ground

September 25, 2018 by Jason Contant

Claims adjusters are reporting a wide range of claims from the two tornadoes that tore through the Ottawa-Gatineau area Friday. “The tornado event is considered to be more like a ‘pocket storm,’” Kumar Sivakumaran, vice president of national operations with

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Is Toronto’s latest storm a cat event?

September 12, 2018 by Jason Contant

Although heavy rain soaked Torontonians during Monday’s morning rush hour, the storm won’t be a catastrophe event, insurance professionals told Canadian Underwriter. “As far as I’m concerned, the rainfall yesterday was a non-event from an insurance perspective,” Glenn McGillivray, managing

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Will Hurricane Florence affect reinsurance rates in Canada?

September 12, 2018 by Jason Contant

As the southeastern United States braces for Hurricane Florence – one year after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria caused widespread destruction in the country – the question of whether there is sufficient reinsurance capacity is again thrust into the spotlight.