Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
As far back as 2006 – when presenting the Insurance 2020 study – I tended to hear the question “What if Google did insurance?” Well, Google has been doing insurance for about 2 years in the U.K. now, and very recently announced the big launch Continue reading
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Prompted by an invitation from the organizers of the Multaqa insurance conference to join a business leaders’ roundtable earlier this week in Qatar, a couple of frantic hours reading up on the subject of our discussion, the digital transformation of the insurance industry, turned out to be time very well spent. Of little surprise was […]
The Ontario government has launched a review of the mandates of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) and the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Ontario (DICO).The mandate reviews were announced as part of the 2014 Ontario Fall Economic Sta…
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The promise of driverless cars continues to ramp up, with tests on public roads occurring or planned all over the world. I’ve spoken before about the emergence of this technology, specifically on the importance of standards in governing how autonomous…
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The National Building Code and the building codes of each province and territory in Canada are some of the best in the world, as are local building inspection practices. And Canadian homebuilders most certainly construct some of the best homes in the world.
But there is always room for improvement, and as severe weather gets fiercer and more pervasive, this need will only become more acute.
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Using the family car to drive for Uber carries the potential for serious consequences in terms of inadequate insurance protection. Until the legal issues surrounding Uber’s business model are resolved, it doesn’t appear likely the industry will come up with a solution.
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Last year, I started to put up some random links and thoughts, which will continue unregularly. Today, it’s Watson edition: A Japanese company will start selling an empathetic robot called Pepper this summer. If that wasn’t cool enough, they are adding Watson technology to enable Continue reading
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The Court of Appeal for Ontario has held that a hospital can be sued (in a proposed class action) for a privacy breach.
In Hopkins v. Kay, the class plaintiff alleged that her records as a patient at the Peterborough Regional Heath Centre were improperly accessed. She based her claim on the common law tort of intrusion upon seclusion, set out in Jones v. Tsige.
The hospital brought a Rule 21 motion to dismiss the claim on the ground that the Personal Health Information Protection Act (“PHIPA”) is an exhaustive code that ousts the jurisdiction of the Superior Court to entertain any common law claim for invasion of privacy rights in relation to patient records.
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A political science professor that I had described how difficult it was for communist countries to convert to capitalism. He proposed that the longer the country was under communist rule, the harder and longer it was to change to capitalism;…
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This year’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES) – the definitive trade show of new and emerging consumer technologies held in Las Vegas each January – was, if nothing else, a confirmation of what we already suspected. Drones, driverless cars and the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to be areas of intense research and development. The buzz for 2015, however, is almost assuredly set to be a maturing field known as “wearables.”
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Love is seemingly in the air in 2015 with the engagement of Axis to Partner Re recently announced hot on the heels of the betrothal of Catlin to XL. Guessing who will be next up the aisle is the favourite game in the coffee shops and wine bars of the London Market. Few doubt that […]
As an occasional writer, I appreciate good use of language. My collection of favourites includes three sentences used by various telephone customer service representatives. They contain a small lie. But as a wanna-be marketer, I find it really tickles my…
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Joseph Campisi, a Toronto area personal injury laywer has launched a constitutional challenge to Bill 15.
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the preeminent show for seeing, hearing and feeling what is emerging and hot in consumer electronics at the beginning of each year. It is the place to go to see new electronic games,…
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