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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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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Insurance Bureau of Canada attempted to respond to a recent piece on the Fort McMurray Alberta rebuild following the fire in 2016. The magazine has not printed the response. The following is IBC’s position. The recent article by Nicholas Köhler…
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The recent flooding in Ottawa, Gatineau, Laval and other places brought four main issues to the fore. First, is the matter of buying out homeowners located in the floodway, the 1 in 20 flood plain. Second, is the need to…
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As this is being written, floodwaters are slowly receding after having inundated some 300 homes in the Ottawa area, and nearly 4,000 properties in the province of Quebec. And judging by modern Canadian history, there is a really good chance…
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The Fort McMurray wildfire will end up costing government (read: taxpayers) and insurers considerably more than the flooding in southern Alberta in 2013. However, it appears to be the flood that is having – and will continue to have –…
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It’s early March and Alberta has already ramped-up preparations for the 2017 wildfire season. Indeed, the province – through an amended Forest and Prairie Protection Act – has codified the start of wildfire season as March 1. According to the Whitecourt…
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A preliminary study by an economist at Edmonton’s MacEwan University reports that the direct and indirect economic costs from the Fort McMurray wildfire currently sit at about $9.5 billion, and that the estimate will likely go higher as new data…
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ICLR has just released its latest five-year plan, which sets out the Institute’s research and engagement strategy for the period 2017 through 2021. Over the plan period, ICLR will continue to focus on providing research that supports action by public…
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When an insurance representative makes the decision to bind a new homeowner’s policy, does he/she have all the information needed in order to get a full picture of the risk before it is taken onto the company’s balance sheet? Said…
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When the CEO of the largest insurance company in the country warns of a risk that could take down the industry, it’s time to take notice. In an article published in the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, Charles Brindamour,…
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One of the problems with large natural disasters like Fort McMurray is that much smaller ones can pile up with little notice and no fanfare. This seems to be what’s happening in Canada this year. As all eyes have been…
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A small city that wasn’t designed to burn was put up in the middle of the Boreal forest that was designed to burn. Are we simply going to put Fort McMurray back the way it was? Fortunately for insureds in…
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Unlike the 2013 flood in southern Alberta, the Fort McMurray wildfire is a heavily insured event. Considering that property insurance got its roots in fire (indeed it used to be widely known as ‘fire insurance’, still is in certain circles,…
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