GRAND BAY-WESTFIELD, N.B. – A minor earthquake rattled windows and knocked dishes off shelves in a small community in southern New Brunswick on Thursday. “It felt like something ran into the building _ it was a big bang,” said Troy…
The Insurance Brokers Association of Canada (IBAC) is hoping to be able to present a new, revised Canadian Accredited Insurance Broker (CAIB) program to the broker community by this fall. The new content will address 10 broad broker competency areas…
Reinsurance is extremely important but could get too expensive in certain areas, industry leaders said at a recent event. Some insurance companies today are “dialing up their reinsurance protection – property and cat risk in particular in the United States,”…
Insurers might be unintentionally covering flood and fire risks arising from computer problems, a cyber expert with a risk modelling firm suggests. “Anything that is related to a computer system could trigger non-cyber losses,” Matt Honea, cyber director for Cyence…
New research is digging in to why fracking causes earthquakes in some areas but not in others. A paper published Monday in Geophysical Research Letters suggests the likelihood of an artificial earthquake is heavily influenced by how stable the ground…
Three relatively strong earthquakes were recorded Sunday night in the Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.6 magnitude quake about 260 kilometres west of Tofino, followed by a 6.8 tremor and then a third measuring…
Commercial brokers advising Canadian clients with operations in foreign countries need to understand consumer protection and pollution laws in those countries. “It’s up to a broker to make sure that he or she is well versed in what those countries’…
MONTREAL – Filling the reservoirs of Quebec’s hydroelectric dams has sometimes caused small earthquakes – a process that doesn’t seem to have occurred elsewhere in Canada, according to a seismologist who has studied the phenomenon. Maurice Lamontagne says it’s still…
A small earthquake that struck Nova Scotia’s western shore Saturday has again highlighted the lack of uptake of earthquake coverage in Atlantic Canada. At about 10:30 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 29, a magnitude-3.1 quake struck off the coast…
VANCOUVER – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake that hit nearly 300 kilometres off the south-central coast of Oregon early Wednesday was strong enough to be felt in British Columbia. Data from the United States Geological Survey shows residents in Vancouver and…
With computer security incidents causing business interruption and privacy breaches, there is a “very real possibility” that a catastrophe bond covering cyber risk might be available, the head of a cyber risk modelling vendor predicts. Catastrophe bonds are a form…
Catastrophe Indices & Quantification Inc. (CatIQ) has launched Canada’s first ever insurance Industry Exposure Database (IED), developed with support from the Canadian property and casualty insurance industry and in partnership with Zurich-based PERILS AG. The IED contains 2016 and 2017…