Your most important meeting of the year with the brokerage’s biggest client falls on an afternoon when your daughter’s soccer team plays in the city championship game. What do you do? A standard response is to feel stress and guilt,…
Buying American commercial insurers is a “strategy that could prove rewarding” for Canadian insurance companies, executives from Toronto-based DBRS wrote in a report released Thursday. Expanding into the U.S. commercial space “requires significant resources,” wrote Stewart McIlwraith, senior vice president…
Machine learning is now able to analyze court decisions and predict how judges may respond in certain situations, based on an analysis of existing caselaw. Artificial intelligence technology is currently available to analyze tax and employment caselaw, but it’s easy…
The Insurance Council of Manitoba has fined Randolph McGlynn of Advocis Brokers Services Inc. $2,000 for attesting that two agents were licensed to do business in Manitoba when in fact they never held agent licenses in the province. Instead, the…
TORONTO – Ten people died and 15 others were injured when a van mounted a sidewalk and struck multiple pedestrians along a stretch of one of Toronto’s busiest streets, authorities said Monday, calling it “a horrific attack.” Deputy police chief…
Cyber insurance application forms can give companies a “good understanding” of how well prepared they are to deal with an information security-related loss, speakers said Thursday at the International Cyber Risk Management Conference in Toronto. “We have seen clients stop…
If you are going to cry at work, make sure it’s not in front of a Boomer. Forty-seven per cent of Canadian workers 55 and older think workplace crying has a negative effect on your professional reputation, according to a…
A set of lawsuits arising from industrial properties allegedly polluted before the current owners bought them is making its way through the Ontario courts. Risk managers at any organization owning or managing property should be aware of the liability from…
Geographic and cultural fit drove London, Ont.-based McFarlan Rowlands‘s decision to acquire DA Kurt Insurance Brokers of Kitchener, Ont., McFarlan told Canadian Underwriter. The deal is expected to close on April 30. “The DA Kurt team prides themselves on providing…
Aviva Canada has a duty to defend a nurse who is being sued for privacy breach by a patient whose medical records were accessed in a Simcoe, Ontario hospital, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled in a decision released…
Carrie Trudeau has officially started her new position as vice president of claims for Canada with Lloyd’s managing agent AEGIS (Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Limited), bringing 18 years of experience in the Canadian insurance market to the role.…
Brokers placing directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance can expect “more new products” this spring from Intact Insurance, given the company’s acquisition of OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd. in September 2017, an official said Monday. Speaking during Intact’s Investor Day, Mike…