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Canada Brokerlink breaks $200 million barrier

Canada Brokerlink has added two Ontario brokers pushing total annualized premium volume to more than $200 million. The publicly traded broker network acquired Hawkesbury-based Charbonneau Bercier Taillon Insurance Brokers Ltd. which has premium volume of approximately $5.1 million and Thunder Bay-based Gordon A. Wilson Insurance Brokers with annual premiums of $2.1 million. The purchases boost […]

December 31, 1998

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Crossing the line in the battle against cancer

Insurance broker and vice president of Toronto-based KRG Insurance Group Eileen Greene recently fulfilled a prophesy and raised more than $10,000 in donations for the Women In Insurance Cancer Crusade (WICC). Her cause was motivated by her mother. Last year Greene’s mother faced surgery to have a cancerous lung removed. Greene recalls from that moment, […]

December 31, 1998

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BELAIRdirect goes online

BELAIRdirect, a division of ING Canada, has raised the stakes in direct insurance by going to the Internet as a means of distribution. The direct writer launched its online car insurance quotation system in December. The first of its kind in North America, BELAIRdirect’s web-site prompts visitors to answer a step-by-step questionnaire and provides an […]

December 31, 1998

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