Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
Insurance needs Real-Time now to benefit from lower costs and immediate confirmation between all stake-holders in the insurance distribution vertical. However, Real-Time transactions are too rare in insurance. The most obvious example is D2C insurers who have stepped up their…
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A perfect storm is an event in which a rare combination of circumstances drastically aggravates an event. We are in a 4th industrial revolution. A technology driven revolution which led to the term “Insurance 4.0”. Insurance 4.0 is defined as…
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Another direct-to-consumer insurance platform has launched in North America claiming that “unmet demand for simple and fast digital insurance services in today’s connected world. Savvy insurance customers want the option to research, compare, and buy easily online”. A growing segment…
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Someone once asked Ernest Hemingway how he went bankrupt and he responded, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” This short piece is intended to provide you with strategies to protect your brokerage and position yourself for the recovery that will follow…
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We have written this piece to share our observations on issues that have an impact on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Canadian Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance Industry. These observations are based on divestiture processes we have been…
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Why Insurance Needs to Innovate Late last year AM Best released their new methodology and criteria on scoring and assessing innovation. “Innovation is becoming increasingly critical to the long-term success of all insurers. With innovation, companies can develop sustainable competitive…
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Let me start by saying that some of the best managed and most profitable brokerages in Canada are employee-owned. We believe that every succession planning process should, at the very least, consider this option. When talking about management buy-ins, a…
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When it comes to Property and Casualty (P&C) brokerage consolidation activity, I think most industry participants would say that it has primarily been driven by underwriters. Their low cost of capital and desire to protect premium revenue has led to…
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Lately, we have all been hearing and reading a lot about InsureTech. Frankly, I have to admit that I don’t exactly understand what the term means. What I do understand is that underwriters, brokers and direct writers have invested millions…
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Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Risk Management positions LogicManager highest for ability to execute and identifies a shift in focus by end-user organizations from compliance-based GRC to IRM solutions. The Gartner report states that “IRM goes beyond traditional, compliance-driven…
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Uber has agreed to pay a hefty $148 million settlement after concealing a data breach in 2016 containing 57 million users’ data. In hopes of preventing this from recurring, it’s time for Uber to reassess their risk management practices, and…
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While we are always monitoring changes to financial issues related to the P&C insurance industry, we have long stopped trying to predict the future, especially in terms of the valuation of brokerages. Having said that, we are in the unique position to…
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Over the years, we have written several pieces about the state of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Property and Casualty (P&C) industry and think it is safe to say the market has been, and will continue to be, robust in the foreseeable…
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In a recent online article, Canadian Underwriter magazine asked the question, Is the sun setting on auto insurance in Canada? In my view, it may be late afternoon for the automobile insurance market, but I think it will be a…
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