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Patti Kernaghan, President, CEO, Kernaghan Adjusters Patti Kernaghan was working in the banking industry and felt pretty settled in her career before her career path veered towards the insurance industry. “My father took me out for lunch, which was not common, and asked if I’d join him,” recalled Kernaghan, president and CEO of Vancouver-based Kernaghan […]
By Jason Contant | March 12, 2021
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Lorri Frederick, President, ClaimsPro Claims has been a very “old-school” and traditional sector of the insurance industry, and for the longest time was very slow to change from the standpoints of technology, process, and diversity, said Lorri Frederick, president of independent adjusting firm ClaimsPro. But that’s changing. “The good news is that over the last […]
Data show that most directors are interested in diversity — at least in theory — on their boards, but that doesn’t always translate into real change. A new blog written by the leader and a principal of PwC’s Governance Insights Center highlighted four of the most commonly cited reasons for why boards lacked diversity: Low […]
By Jason Contant | March 11, 2021
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The use of risk sharing pools for private passenger auto insurance in Ontario and Alberta dropped last year, according to Facility Association. And when it came to the overall usage of risk sharing pools across the country, there was a drop in market share, albeit slight. At the Facility Association annual general meeting last week, […]
By Adam Malik | March 11, 2021
REGINA – A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed in Saskatchewan against a long-term care operator alleging it lacked proper resources to handle COVID-19. Documents filed Thursday at Regina’s Court of Queen’s Bench say the novel coronavirus spread through different Extendicare locations last fall. One of those was Extendicare Parkside in Regina, where a statement […]
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OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate on hold Wednesday even as it said it now expects the economy will grow over the first three months of this year, an about-face from its previous forecast just weeks ago that 2021 would begin with an economic slump. In January, the central bank […]
Georgie Fleck, team manager, HRM and Central Nova Scotia, AA Munro Insurance At one point, Georgie Fleck decided to stop wearing a skirt to work for a couple of years. “And when I was asked about it, I did point out that I noticed that only those in pants advance,” recalled the current team manager […]
Jodie Kaufman Davis, Corporate Senior Vice President, H.W. Kaufman Group; Managing Director, Burns & Wilcox Canada. Jodie Kaufman Davis, managing director of Burns & Wilcox Canada, entered the Canadian insurance industry while she was making a tough choice about her career in corporate law. After eight years as a corporate lawyer, and expecting her second child at […]
By David Gambrill | March 11, 2021
Lorie Phair, president, Canadian Broker Network Women fight the stigma that you can’t be pleasant and kind while confident and assertive at the same time, said Lorie Phair, president of the Canadian Broker Network. “In fact, I was told once that I was too nice to be in a major, senior role,” Phair said. Another […]
Learning and development (L&D) leaders across Canada have cited resilience and digital fluency as the two most important “power skills” for the new world of work in 2021, one year after the COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. “There are definitely two things — among too many to count — that 2020’s challenging circumstances helped […]
By Jason Contant | March 10, 2021
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