Operations

Q&A: Business Continuity in the Digital Age

Running day-to-day operations is a challenge when your employees aren’t all in the same physical location. Although the Canadian P&C insurance industry is an essential service (and is therefore allowed to keep its offices open), most the industry’s workforce has been working remotely from home since Mar. 11, when the World Health Organization declared the […]

By David Gambrill | May 28, 2020

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How the pandemic could make it easier for brokers to sell insurance

Brokers may find it easier to persuade clients to buy insurance coverages that have been traditionally harder to sell, because the COVID-19 pandemic has turned a previously far-fetched risk scenario into a reality. “It doesn’t have to be pandemic coverage we’re talking about,” Joseph Carnevale, partner and managing director of sales at Brokers Trust Insurance […]

By Adam Malik | May 28, 2020

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Q&A: Business Continuity in the Digital Age

With the novel coronavirus pandemic creating an economic recession, the future of real estate pricing may become a factor in how some businesses choose to proceed in the post pandemic future. Some have argued that commercial real estate pricing may influence how some insurance organizations may plan to proceed with their business operations in the […]

By David Gambrill | May 25, 2020

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Carrier exec calls for BMS vendors to move away from developing third-party rating tools

Broker management system (BMS) tech vendors need to move away from spending time, effort and money on developing third-party rating tools used for comparison quoting, an insurance company executive said at a recent webinar on broker-carrier connectivity. Instead, they should consider working on an industry-wide quoting solution that, through APIs (application programming interfaces), connects brokerages […]

By David Gambrill | May 22, 2020

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