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BROOKS, Alta. – A fast-moving weather system in Alberta brought both fire and ice, resulting in the evacuation of a village one day and a multi-vehicle collision that closed the Trans-Canada Highway between Medicine Hat and Calgary the next. About 275 residents in Carmangay, which is 165 kilometres southeast of Calgary, were forced to leave […]
By Jason Contant | March 31, 2021
3 min read
Focused narrowly on responding to the COVID-19 global pandemic — and preparing for the next one — Canada may be losing sight of preparing for other, potentially more likely disaster scenarios, P&C insurance industry executives commented at the Swiss Re Canadian Insurance Outlook Breakfast on Tuesday. “There’s a tremendous focus in Ottawa now on pandemics, […]
By David Gambrill | March 30, 2021
Floods, hail, fire, and lightning strikes are among the concerns for underwriters who insure green energy projects, an expert with RSA Canada says. And also, solar panel placement. Perhaps not many would link solar panel placement with flood risk, but there is a connection, as Doug Laurin observes. Laurin is the director and head of […]
By Greg Meckbach | March 29, 2021
2 min read
Canadian property and casualty insurance professionals would like a more flexible, hybrid workplace, a recent survey shows, but the question for employers now is what such an arrangement might look like. About 87% of the more than 1,150 P&C insurance professionals surveyed by Canadian Underwriter in mid-January reported that they were working from home to […]
By David Gambrill | March 26, 2021
4 min read
Insurers are applauding the Ontario government for its commitment to improve flood mapping and to provide more money for municipal water infrastructure, measures that the industry hopes will reduce the risk of water damage to insured properties. In a press release Thursday reacting to the province’s 2021-22 budget document, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says […]
By Greg Meckbach | March 25, 2021
In the case of a flood caused by a mice infestation, a B.C. strata unit owner was not allowed to recover her $500 insurance deductible or $273 premium increase from the strata corporation despite having warned the strata corporation about the rodent problem six years in advance of the flood. In ruling against the strata […]
By David Gambrill | March 24, 2021
A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision means a slip-and-fall lawsuit against an Alberta school board is dismissed. Shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Jan. 17, 2013, Angelina Hannam slipped and fell on a sidewalk outside River Heights Elementary School in Medicine Hat. She was walking behind the custodian as he sanded the sidewalk. Hannam, who […]
By Greg Meckbach | March 23, 2021
Canada’s P&C insurance industry survived the pandemic year of 2020 in good financial health, although some insurers wound up with healthier balance sheets than others, according to financial data published in the forthcoming MSA Research Q4-2020 Outlook Report. “The Canadian P&C industry emerged from 2020, an extraordinary year in all respects, with strong results and […]
By David Gambrill | March 23, 2021
If your commercial clients are bringing more workers back into the office, risk managers might be curious as to whether returning workers have received any of their COVID-19 vaccine shots. But before your clients ask their employees about their vaccine status, risk managers should first consult an employment lawyer, an insurance lawyer advises. “Before flat-out […]
By Greg Meckbach | March 22, 2021
The Co-operators does not have a duty to defend a cyber liability case involving a “novel” policy exclusion for breached data being published over the internet, the Ontario Court for Appeal has ruled. Reversing the previous decision of a lower court, the appeal court found that the insurer’s policy exclusion for data posted on the […]
By David Gambrill | March 19, 2021
5 min read
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