Industry
MONTREAL – BRP Inc. announced an ambitious expansion into electric vehicles on Thursday, investing $300 million over five years as the company looks to adapt to market trends and broaden its appeal to a new set of customers. The maker of Ski-Doos and Sea-Doos plans to offer electric versions of its recreational vehicles in each […]
By Jason Contant | March 26, 2021
3 min read
The size of your commercial client appears to influence their optimism about the future as Canada’s vaccination program starts to roll out, a trio of recent reports suggests. Bigger commercial clients are feeling a sense of optimism when looking ahead, say two recent reports that spoke to medium, large and global companies. A majority of […]
By Adam Malik | March 25, 2021
Fraudsters are taking advantage of anxieties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic to exploit victims in the Canadian P&C insurance space in novel ways, speakers said during a fraud webinar Wednesday. For example, some body shops are charging drivers extra cleaning fees and storage days for vehicle cleaning. In staged collisions, some fraudsters are using COVID […]
By Jason Contant | March 25, 2021
COVID-19 last year might have been the end of the world as we know it, to riff on a song by R.E.M., but Canada’s P&C insurance industry is doing fine — financially, at least. After a full year of the pandemic behind us, Canada’s federally regulated insurers posted an underwriting profit of $1.93 billion in […]
By David Gambrill | March 25, 2021
VANCOUVER – A newly approved pilot project will allow electric kick scooters to legally cruise the streets and bike paths of six British Columbia municipalities. Transportation Minister Rob Fleming said Tuesday the pilot project is all about looking at emerging forms of transportation. “E-scooters are growing in popularity, they’re not terribly well-suited for sidewalks and […]
A U.S.-based managing general agency (MGA) is expanding into the Canadian market to serve Canada’s growing logistics and cargo industry, the company announced Tuesday. Amwins Specialty Logistic Underwriters (ASLU) specializes in covering complex risk factors of the logistics and cargo industry. The Charlotte, N.C.-based MGA first launched in the United States in 2018 to offer […]
By Jason Contant | March 24, 2021
2 min read
Brokers may not disappear over the next 10 years but their ranks will definitely thin out, an insurance brokerage executive predicted during a recent webinar. Commoditization of the insurance industry will cut out transactional procedures that many brokers find themselves doing today, said Danish Yusuf, president and CEO of Zensurance. Instead, brokers of the future […]
By Adam Malik | March 24, 2021
OTTAWA – The federal Liberals are facing calls from some of the hardest-hit businesses in the pandemic to use the coming budget to extend emergency relief programs beyond June, saying many will still need help even as the economy picks up. The government has targeted June 5 for an end to the federal wage and […]
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced Tuesday its board of directors is not in favour of a US$23 billion takeover offer from Chubb Limited. Both Chubb and Hartford own Canadian property and casualty commercial insurers. Zurich, Switzerland-based Chubb announced Mar. 18 that it was offering to buy The Hartford for US$65 per share, a […]
By Greg Meckbach | March 24, 2021
With road traffic down due to stay-at-home orders and business closures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the frequency of auto collisions in Canada was halved at one point, according to a new report. But police data show the fatality rate actually went up, suggesting the crashes were more severe. In reviewing auto insurance trends […]
By Adam Malik | March 23, 2021
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