Tech

Applied launches “translation services” to improve broker-insurer connectivity

Applied Systems announced Wednesday the launch of its insurer “translation services,” allowing Canadian insurers to translate and distribute policy-related data directly into [broker] management systems. The translation services provide the connectivity technology required to easily move data between insurer and brokerage systems across the insurance lifecycle – including quoting, binding, servicing, and ultimately renewal. Jeff […]

By Jason Contant | April 5, 2018

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Why re-using online passwords is so dangerous

Brokers should be advising their clients that the re-use of passwords across multiple websites and accounts could be a disaster waiting to happen, a cybersecurity specialist told Canadian Underwriter Wednesday. Lisa Baergen, marketing director of Vancouver-based NuData Security, a Mastercard Company, made her comments after an unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts in […]

By Jason Contant | April 5, 2018

2 min read

Female-centred ride hailing apps on the rise

The women behind the slowly growing number of ride-hailing apps catering to female passengers and drivers say the hurdles they’ve had to overcome to get their services on the road demonstrate exactly why they’re necessary in the first place. Women from Halifax to Vancouver Island have tried to launch female-only alternatives to services such as […]

By Jason Contant | April 3, 2018

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Consumers capable of making online insurance purchases on their own: digital broker

Canadians are rejecting the notion that personal lines insurance is such a complicated product that consumers are incapable of making their own insurance purchase decisions without the advice of a broker, a digital broker told Canadian Underwriter recently. “I don’t know how a carburetor works, but I can buy a car,” Scott Loong, co-founder and […]

By Jason Contant | April 2, 2018

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