Risk
1 Crawford & Company (Canada) Inc. has made a number of organizational changes, including the promotion of Bill Johnstone [1a] from his current role as vice president of Greater Toronto Area and Global Technical Services to the position of senior vice president of Global Technical Services (GTS) for the Americas. Johnstone will continue to be […]
July 31, 2009
5 min read
During the tenure of its incoming president, Patti Kernaghan, the CIAA is planning to approach the industry for guidance in planning what the association's future role should be; it also plans to be accessible to potential new recruits.
June 30, 2009
*or, What dull insurers can teach glamorous investment bankers
7 min read
Canada's solvency regulator, OSFI, has made another move to clarify its proposed changes to Part XIII of Canada's Insurance Companies Act, which will take effect as of Jan. 1, 2010.
8 min read
Canada is swept up right now in an international current flowing (albeit with glacial speed) towards the mutual recognition of reinsurance supervision. Mutual recognition describes a situation in which a supervisor or regulator in one jurisdiction agrees to abide by the standards of a regulator in a jurisdiction where the parent company of a global […]
15 min read
Updated earthquake damage models will have a mixed effect on Canada's regional losses.
6 min read
With very low inflation currently at hand, one might question the reason to feature the topic in this magazine at the moment. Still, there are good reasons for not losing sight of inflation and its eventual impact on our underwriting results. Before going into these reasons, let’s make sure we are all on the same […]
Letter to the Editor
2 min read
OSFI's discussion paper on reinsurance has the industry talking about what it means to be licensed, unlicensed and the collateral implications.
Opportunistic underwriters may want to start looking at whether language in standard business interruption policies is tailored to cover off the exact nature of the economic damage wrought by a pandemic.
May 31, 2009
3 min read
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