Risk

CNA Financial restructures P&C operations

CNA Financial Corporation has restructured its property and casualty operations so that field operations will be led from two regional centres Field Operations East and Field Operations West. Steve Stonehouse will lead the West and Dennis Barger will lead the East. The newly structured operations will help increase CNAs visibility in the market, leverage the […]

By Canadian Underwriter | November 7, 2007

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Five years after SOX, business as usual for auditors

For the first time since the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act [SOX] went into effect in 2002, a growing number of internal audit departments are returning to business as usual, according to a new survey by Protiviti Inc.Protiviti is a provider of independent risk consulting and internal audit services. Its survey was conducted from October 2006 through […]

By Canadian Underwriter | November 6, 2007

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ESIS to provide dedicated Canadian workers compensation oversight

ESIS Inc., a risk management services company of ACE USA, announced it will provide dedicated Canadian workers compensation oversight to its clients through its affiliate, ESIS Canada Inc. ESIS Canada Inc. will offer reporting services for all new claims to the appropriate provincial workers compensation Board (WCB), including assistance with the filing of all WCB […]

By Canadian Underwriter | November 2, 2007

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Ontario Court upholds liability waiver based on “forseeable” risk

The legal test for negligence which would absolve an outdoor equipment provider of liability in a personal injury case is not perfection but rather to design a product so as to eliminate any unreasonable risk of foreseeable injury, the Ontario Superior Court ruled in Enslev v. Challenges Unlimited Inc.And although an outdoor swing designer might […]

By Canadian Underwriter | November 2, 2007

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