Claims
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has reported that charges for impaired driving laid as part of its 2012 holiday traffic safety campaign was the highest it has been when compared to the last eight campaigns (since 2005). As part of its Festive R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign, the OPP charged 693 people with having […]
By Canadian Underwriter | January 4, 2013
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During a month-long “Operation Overdrive” traffic safety blitz, law and traffic enforcement officers in Saskatchewan checked more than 8,600 vehicles and issued more than 2,400 tickets, more than 200 of which were for impaired driving, Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) said Friday. The 2,416 tickets issued in December 2012 included:
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The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) has released on its website a retrospective of the Eastern Canadian ice storm of 1998 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of what is the costliest insured natural catastrophe in Canadian history. The ice storm that hit Quebec and Ontario cost more than $1.8 billion (figure adjusted for inflation). […]
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The United States saw a higher proportion of global natural catastrophes than usual in 2012, with 90% of all insured losses worldwide attributed to the U.S., mainly due to weather-related events, major reinsurer Munich Re noted Thursday. In 2012, natural catastrophes caused $160 billion in overall losses and $65 billion in insured losses worldwide. Roughly […]
By Canadian Underwriter | January 3, 2013
Extreme weather that produced everything from droughts to floods globally exacted a high toll on farmers and the food supply chain in 2012 and demands that the British government rethink its country’s farm policy, argues the head of the National Farmers Union (NFU). In his New Year message, posted on the union website, NFU president […]
A Winnipeg fraudster topped Manitoba Public Insurance’s (MPI) fraud list for 2012, receiving a $1,500 fine and being ordered to pay $60,000 in vehicle damages to the public insurer after pleading guilty to making a false statement under the provincial Highway Traffic Act. Describing the fraud as an expensive hangover, MPI reported in late December […]
By Canadian Underwriter | January 2, 2013
Will recommendations contained in the Ontario Automobile Insurance Anti-Fraud Task Force report be a game changer, addressing what has become an increasingly organized and expensive problem? Or could implementation and timing issues threaten to alter the carefully plotted road map for improving the system?
By Angela Stelmakowich, Editor | December 31, 2012
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Ontario's appeal court was recently the latest stop for two subrogation claims that began their years-long journeys in Small Claims Court to obtain direction regarding who is responsible for damages caused by leaking hot water tanks - the homeowner (or his property insurer) or the company supplying the tank.
By Mark Mason and Hillel David, McCague Borlack LLP | December 31, 2012
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A recent seminar in Toronto explored a number of issues on the claims front, including no-fault benefits involving public transit vehicles, examination under oath and retroactive attendant care.
By Donna Ford, LL.B., CIP, Freelance Writer | December 31, 2012
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A Supreme Court of Canada decision that explored how a poorly built home can be construed as an accident, rejecting an insurer's claim from construction contractors who blamed defective work on subcontractors, remains relevant today.
By Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor | December 31, 2012
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