Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
Insurance Blogs hosted by Canadian Underwriter
Let me start by saying that some of the best managed and most profitable brokerages in Canada are employee-owned. We believe that every succession planning process should, at the very least, consider this option. When talking about management buy-ins, a…
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Cybersecurity vulnerabilities are an increasing concern for every company in every industry. Year over year, data breaches increase by 75%. Why are they becoming more prevalent, and how can you protect your business? Before you can protect your company from…
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Insurance and insurers have been around for millennia, with modern insurance starting in the U.K. more than 300 years ago. For much of this time, incumbent insurers have been protected from competition by four big barriers: regulation, the law of large numbers, the trust nature of insurance, and, last but not least, the inertia of […]
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Nine provinces and one territory in the country have formal disaster assistance programs designed to help homeowners, renters, small business owners, not-for-profits and local governments recover after a loss event. Prince Edward Island, Yukon and Nunavut do not currently have…
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For the first time, reputation risk, organizational culture, and cybersecurity have all landed among the top five risks in the energy industry. How can energy companies tackle all of these risks without wasting time and money on additional resources? This…
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Even a $1 trillion company cannot hide in the See-Through Economy. After a fourteen-year-old boy discovered a serious bug in Apple’s group FaceTime feature, his mother e-mailed, faxed, and tweeted the report to Apple. However, it wasn’t until after her…
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Insurance Bureau of Canada attempted to respond to a recent piece on the Fort McMurray Alberta rebuild following the fire in 2016. The magazine has not printed the response. The following is IBC’s position. The recent article by Nicholas Köhler…
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Some of my Ontario readers might be wondering what is happening in B.C. and their auto insurance reforms.When the NDP government was formed, they inherited quite a mess. Auti insuracne costs were rising rapidly and rates increases had not kept up. The …
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Today the economy is strong and your business is doing well. But are you prepared for when this strength turns to weakness? Enterprise risk management has been proven to help companies survive a recession. While there is much debate over…
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When it comes to Property and Casualty (P&C) brokerage consolidation activity, I think most industry participants would say that it has primarily been driven by underwriters. Their low cost of capital and desire to protect premium revenue has led to…
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It’s been a long time since I last posted on this blog, but to be honest not much has happened with respect to Ontario Auto Insurance.Last spring I wrote about the factors that were actually driving up the cost of auto insurance i.e., distracted d…
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There’s an undeniable shift occurring in the business world right now. In fact, it’s been forming since 2007. I’ve coined the phrase the See-Through Economy to encapsulate the shift towards transparency and accountability brought on by new technology and social…
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Scandals, predictions, and insights, oh my! We’ve covered a lot of ground this year in the risk management world. But what were the topics people were buzzing about most? With over 50 blogs posted in 2018 alone, there was a…
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Last Friday, Marriott disclosed that the data of about 500 million guests had been exposed as a result of a hack that dates all the way back to 2014. In 2014, hackers exploited the reservation system of Starwood Hotels and…
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