Not everyone has embraced telematics. It was reported the other day that at least one insurer has been told by its brokerage force that their customers are ‘not fans of telematics’. Carol Jardine, chief strategy office for Wawanesa, is quoted…
Read more →Clap on… clap off. Do you remember the Clapper? An early example of the potential of today’s smart home, the device plugged into any electrical outlet and connected to household devices, usually a lamp or stereo, enabling people to turn…
Read more →Hard to get back to “normal” blogging after seeing the news from Paris over the weekend, so just short today. Thanks to Jean Jullien (@jean_jullien on Twitter) for putting out the image on the left to the public domain. My thoughts go out to the Continue reading
Read more →There has been much discussion about the introduction of vehicle telematics to the Canadian insurance marketplace. The idea of usage-based insurance (UBI) is that a driver’s behaviour is monitored in real time while the person drives. This information is then…
Read more →Each year, EY publishes our Canadian property and casualty insurance outlook, where we take the pulse of the industry and note what challenges – and opportunities – are in store for the year ahead. It’s fair to say the industry…
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