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While Hurricane Laura’s insured damage estimates in the United States range anywhere between $4 billion to $12 billion, the post-tropical storm predicted for Atlantic Canada did not quite reach the level of intensity initially forecast for the Maritimes last Thursday. Meanwhile, debate in the United States is raging over whether the National Hurricane Center is […]
By David Gambrill | August 31, 2020
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Canada’s property and casualty insurance industry needs to cross-train more claims adjusters if it wants to have enough property adjusters to be available in the event of a catastrophe, industry experts said last week. “Cross-training is important because it is what allows us to bring together those internal resources that we need when there is […]
By Greg Meckbach | August 31, 2020
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During the hail storm this past June that damaged tens of thousands of Alberta homes, adjusting firm CRU Group struggled to find enough qualified independent catastrophe adjusters in Canada, and wound up resorting to bringing in people from the United States. “It didn’t go over real well,” acknowledged Skip McHardy, chief operational officer, catastrophe response, […]
By Greg Meckbach | August 28, 2020
A British Columbia resident who had to move out for nearly six months for flood restoration work still has to pay his monthly fees to the strata corporation, the B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal has ruled. Ye Yuan said that from September 2018 to February 2019, he had to move out of the strata unit he […]
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Canadians understand that flood damage has increased, but they don’t necessarily know to protect their homes against it, according to joint research conducted by RSA Canada and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada. The research suggests an opportunity for Canadian P&C brokers to provide more advice to clients about how to protect their homes against flood […]
By David Gambrill | August 27, 2020
An Ontario court has ruled against an insurer’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit in which an argument was made that the woman on the receiving end of a hit-and-run could have reasonably done more to get the driver’s information. In a recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruling, Justice James Stribopoulos declined to summarily dismiss […]
By Greg Meckbach | August 27, 2020
The path of Hurricane Laura — which is currently located off the U.S. Gulf Coast and described as one of the fastest-intensifying storms in history — is tracking to hit St. John’s, Nfld., next Monday as a post-tropical storm, according to the Canadian Hurricane Centre. The rapid intensification of Hurricane Laura to a major Category […]
By David Gambrill | August 26, 2020
If a client has business interruption coverage for occurrence of a disease within 25 miles of the property that causes a local government authority to place restrictions on the use of premises, this would not cover widespread lockdowns in case of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests a UK lawyer representing insurers in a coverage dispute. “If […]
By Greg Meckbach | August 25, 2020
If the Ontario government abolishes juries in civil trials, this would take away a basic protection for defendants in personal injury lawsuits, a defence lawyer suggests. “The solution is not to abolish juries in personal injury actions. The idea being tried before a jury of one’s peers is kind of a fundamental right,” said Laura […]
By Greg Meckbach | August 24, 2020
PENTICTON, B.C. – Firefighters in British Columbia’s southern Okanagan are bracing for a change in wind and weather that has the potential to drive a huge wildfire north toward the outskirts of Penticton. Calm winds over the last few days are forecast to switch direction and gain strength over the 20-square kilometre wildfire that has […]
By Jason Contant | August 21, 2020
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