A trucking and excavation company in Nova Scotia is immune from tort liability because it was acting under orders from the local fire department in a botched attempt to demolish a burning building, a Nova Scotia court has ruled. The…
Grant S. Dunlop, Q.C., a partner at Ogilvie LLP, has been appointed a justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in Edmonton. Dunlop maintained a litigation practice that specialized in directors’ and officers’ liability, employment, construction, banking regulation,…
Ontario’s mandatory auto insurance system needs more than a tune-up
Jean-Francois Blais, currently president of Intact Insurance, will be retiring from Intact, the parent company Intact Financial Corporation announced on Dec. 14. Blais joined the company six years ago, through Intact’s acquisition of AXA Canada in 2011. He led AXA…
With its fourth major insurance acquisition in 18 months, the manager of Quebec’s public pension funds was looking for exposure to markets in Asia and Latin America, a Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec spokesman told Canadian Underwriter Wednesday.…
Insurers and reinsurers can benefit by considering how near misses – such as an incident three months ago when an Air Canada Airbus A320 nearly landed on a taxiway with four passenger jets – might have become major disasters, Risk…
Unprepared distribution utilities are urged to immediately begin improving their cyber security capabilities given the anticipated future hike in cyber attacks and the fact that most recently polled utility executives say such an attack could interrupt electricity supply, Accenture suggests…
Cyberattacks and asset bubble risks top the list of worries for Canadian businesses, according to new survey data from the World Economic Forum (WEF). The data – released earlier this week and published by the strategic partners of WEF’s Global…
The insurance industry might always look slow and staid to the casual observer, but this year’s PROFIT 500 list proves that exciting opportunities are just about everywhere in the economy — insurance included. Released today by CanadianBusiness.com, the 29th annual…
New cyber-related obligations being proposed south of the border, if approved, could promote more rigorous cyber risk management practices in the U.S. insurance market, Fitch Ratings suggests. The CyberSecurity Working Group of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has…
Disciplined underwriting and strong investment returns contributed to Swiss Re recording net income of US$1.2 billion for the first half of 2017, although catastrophe claims served to reduce the total from the comparable period in 2016. Net income for Swiss…
Half of surveyed chief executive officers across the globe plan to adopt cognitive computing by 2019, according to a recent study conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBM IBV). The study, titled Accelerating enterprise reinvention: how to build…