The ‘touchy topic’ in Canadian home insurance

September 6, 2018 by Greg Meckbach

Lack of flood coverage in high-risk areas raises the controversial question of whether owners of high-risk properties should have their insurance premiums subsidized. Overland flood coverage was generally unavailable on home insurance policies in Canada until 2015. Now dozens of…

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Work on refining IBC’s flood proposal continues, all properties must be covered under strategy: Forgeron

April 21, 2016 Angela Stelmakowich, Editor

No country offering flood protection has got things “100% right,” but Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) will continue to refine its proposal for a national flood strategy that ensures all areas, even high-risk areas, are covered and that works for…