Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
Even a $1 trillion company cannot hide in the See-Through Economy. After a fourteen-year-old boy discovered a serious bug in Apple’s group FaceTime feature, his mother e-mailed, faxed, and tweeted the report to Apple. However, it wasn’t until after her…
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Last Friday, Marriott disclosed that the data of about 500 million guests had been exposed as a result of a hack that dates all the way back to 2014. In 2014, hackers exploited the reservation system of Starwood Hotels and…
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In late September, Facebook announced that it had discovered a breach in its network that had exposed the personal data of nearly 50 million users to hackers. The hackers exploited a feature in Facebook’s code to gain access to user accounts,…
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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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What happens when a Certificate of Automobile Insurance specifies that the policy includes coverages under certain endorsements, when those endorsements never make it onto the policy? The Certificate and OPCF Endorsements Ontario’s standard automobile policy (OAP1) offers a number of…
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This week, Wells Fargo launched a new ad campaign called Re-Established. The goal is to gain back customer trust after their repeat failures in risk management. It won’t work. I’ve talked a lot about the see-through economy, and one of…
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On September 7, big-three credit reporting company Equifax reported that hackers gained access to the personal information of about 143 million U.S. consumers, and have now recently reported that as many as 100,000 Canadian consumers were affected as well. As…
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The third step in the Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act (RMORSA) is the implementation of a risk appetite and tolerance statement. This step is meant to set boundaries on how much risk your organization is…
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The blows keep on coming for Wells Fargo. Within a year of their cross-selling scandal, two more scandals have risen to the top of news headlines. In part one of this series, I set out to make good on a…
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Every business, in every industry, is liable to suffer a scandal. However, in all my years of experience, I have never come across a scandal that wasn’t entirely preventable. In a recent interview I had with business journalist L.A. Winokur…
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The first step in Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act (RMORSA) implementation, risk culture and governance, lays the groundwork and defines roles for your risk management function. The second step, risk identification and prioritization, defines an ongoing risk…
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners adoption of the Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act (RMORSA) of 2015 required insurance organizations to take a broader approach to risk management. I would like to revisit this regulation and…
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On March 14, 2017, Microsoft released a critical patch to address a security vulnerability on its Windows operating system. On May 12, eight weeks later, the WannaCry global ransomware attack exploited that exact vulnerability, impacting over 230,000 computers in more…
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The release of our upcoming study on the risks of digital interconnectedness, a.k.a. cyberrisks, is just 5 weeks away; time to give our readers a first peek at some of the data and/or conclusions. For the study, we surveyed 800 insurers and 1,000 non-insurance companies, Continue reading
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