In today’s day and age, a brokerage definitely needs an online quoting platform to stay ahead of the pack, right? Not according to Whitby, Ont.-based Mitchell & Whale Insurance Brokers. The brokerage ran an online auto insurance quoting engine for five years beginning in late 2012 (which saw about 619,000 visitors), but stopped using it […]
By Jason Contant | August 27, 2019
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Vehicle makers continue to add autonomous features but not everyone thinks that fully self-driving cars are coming any time soon. “I don’t buy into the autonomous vehicle thing. That is decades away, quite frankly,” Steve Smith, president and chief executive officer of Farm Mutual Re, said Thursday of fully autonomous vehicles. “I have a hunt […]
By Greg Meckbach | August 23, 2019
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Do your commercial clients have a strict policy of not calling employees while they are driving? Many drivers who are distracted are actually workers who are travelling on behalf of their employers during the day, Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Gord Keen told insurance professionals Thursday. What this means for commercial insurance clients is that company […]
By Greg Meckbach | August 23, 2019
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If your client has a formal process to disable computer network access for employees and contractors who no longer work there, that client’s cybersecurity is better in at least one respect than some of British Columbia government departments. The province’s Office of the Auditor General recently audited five government departments on how well they follow […]
By Greg Meckbach | August 20, 2019
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Underwriters can better price cyber insurance if they have a clear understanding of that user’s real risk of being breached. To do that, it’s essential to understand when a user’s email and password combination has been exposed in a previous data breach. Real-time application program interfaces (APIs) on the market can examine, for example, all […]
By Jason Contant | August 15, 2019
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Brokers looking to give their customers any positive news on rates potentially coming down shouldn’t get their hopes up. That’s because industry experts believe there’s little indication that we’ll see fewer collisions on roads despite all the safety technology found in today’s new vehicles. A driver could have a number of alarm bells go off […]
By Adam Malik | August 14, 2019
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A third Canadian province has been given the go-ahead for electronic proof of insurance for drivers. The Alberta government gave the OK for drivers to show their pink cards in a digital format through their smartphone this week, following the lead of Newfoundland and Labrador earlier this month and Nova Scotia last year. Just recently, […]
By Adam Malik | August 13, 2019
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A combination of technology, legislation and behaviour change are contributing to a downward trend in road injuries and fatalities in Saskatchewan, including a substantial decrease last year, the Minister responsible for Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) suggested at a press conference Friday. “Behaviour change takes time, we know that,” Joe Hargrave said at the press conference […]
By Jason Contant | August 7, 2019
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How cybercriminals are stealing municipal data – and how to prevent it
August 6, 2019
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How to stand out from the crowd on the world’s biggest search engine without blowing the budget on a fancy website.
August 3, 2019
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