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TORONTO – A clinical trial of the made-in-Canada Ebola vaccine will be conducted in this country, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada announced Friday. The location of the trial – Halifax – comes as a serious disappointment to Ebola researchers at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. At least some had been […]
By Canadian Underwriter | November 14, 2014
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Catlin Group Ltd. released Thursday its interim management statement for the nine months ending Sept. 30, reporting an 11% increase, over the first nine months of 2013, in gross premiums written, with a 19% increase in property premiums. Hamilton, Bermuda-based Catlin Group “incurred claims from two catastrophe events during the third quarter: Hurricane Odile, which […]
WASHINGTON – Lightning strikes in the United States will likely increase by nearly 50 per cent by the end of the century as the world gets warmer and wetter, a new study says. While those conditions were already known to promote thunderstorms in general, the new work focused on lightning strikes themselves. Researchers calculated just […]
WASHINGTON – Nineteen automakers accounting for most of the passenger cars and trucks sold in the U.S. have signed onto a set of principles they say will protect motorists’ privacy in an era when computerized cars pass along more information about their drivers than many motorists realize. The principles were delivered in a letter Wednesday […]
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The Ontario government is currently working on an omnibus bill intended to reduce auto insurance claims costs, but an executive from one insurer warns of “unintended consequences” if tow trucks are defined as commercial vehicles under provincial law while a director for a tow truck association questions the need to change the rules stipulating the […]
By Canadian Underwriter | November 13, 2014
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Saskatchewan Government Insruance is asking the public to share their views on the province’s auto injury program. Earlier this year, SGI began a review of auto injury coverage by consulting with current and former auto injury customers and key stakeholders such as representatives from the medical, legal, and insurance communities. Their input, as well as […]
OTTAWA – Canadian policy-makers can expect to come under intense pressure now that the United States and China have reached a ground-breaking agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. The deal, announced in Beijing, would double the annual rate at which the U.S. is reducing its emissions and, by 2025, cut emissions to 26 to 28 […]
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The world’s outlook for reaching a global climate deal next year brightened Wednesday as China and the U.S. – the top two polluters – presented a joint plan to limit emissions of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that are blamed for warming the planet. The unexpected move was praised worldwide as a historic […]
By Canadian Underwriter | November 12, 2014
ROSEBUD, Alta. – A judge has ruled an Alberta woman who says her well is so contaminated with methane that the water can be set on fire can sue the province over hydraulic fracturing on her property. Jessica Ernst filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Alberta Environment and energy company Encana in 2007. She alleges fracking […]
By The Canadian Press | November 12, 2014
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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A Newfoundland lawyer is moving ahead with an appeal of a provincial Supreme Court decision that dismissed a class-action lawsuit over moose-vehicle crashes. Ches Crosbie says he will appear Jan. 21 before a three-member panel of Appeal Court judges in hopes they will see the novel case differently and overturn the […]
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