Industry
More than half (56%) of employees in the United States who use Apple devices in the workplace report sharing their passwords with others, according to a study released on Monday by cyberthreat enterprise security firm Centrify Corporation. Conducted by Dimensional Research, the Centrify Apple survey “demonstrates that while people widely use Apple devices for work, […]
By Canadian Underwriter | August 25, 2015
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ClaimsPro, Canada’s largest independent claims adjuster, announced on Tuesday that Fred Plant, the company’s senior vice president, Atlantic Region, has been named the new president of the Canadian Independent Adjusters Association (CIAA). The CIAA has existed for more than 50 years as an industry body established to promote and represent common business interests of licensed […]
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) announced Monday it supports a bill, before the United States Congress, which proposes to let motor carriers use hair testing to detect drug use in pre-employment screening, though some unions claim this method has a risk of false positives. “Hair testing is an effective tool for identifying drug users due […]
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More than half of small U.S. commercial fleet managers are likely to stay with their current insurance carriers rather than switching if their insurer offers usage-based insurance (UBI) programs, according to a LexisNexis white paper released on Tuesday. The 2015 LexisNexis Commercial Usage-Based Insurance Study found that 58% of respondents would switch insurance carriers if […]
About 14% of homeowners across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario rent out a portion of their house to non-family members, according to a survey of more than 4,000 house owners conducted by Square One Insurance. The Vancouver-based insurer, which offers home insurance in the five provinces, said in a statement on Monday that […]
By Canadian Underwriter | August 24, 2015
DETROIT – U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating reports that air bags on some older Honda Accords may not inflate in a crash. The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers about 384,000 cars from the 2008 model year. The agency says in documents posted Friday that it received 19 consumer complaints that […]
By Canadian Underwriter | August 21, 2015
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An alliance of financial services cooperatives in North Bay, Timmins and other northern Ontario communities will become the 43rd member-owner of The Co-operators Group Ltd. as of Oct. 1, the insurer announced Friday. Guelph, Ont.-based Co-operators said in a press release that its board of directors approved L’Alliance des caisses populaires de l’Ontario as a […]
July 2015 was the warmest month ever recorded for the globe, with average temperatures across global land and ocean surfaces 0.81°C above the 20th century average, according to the State of the Climate: Global Analysis for July 2015 report from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) released this week. As July is climatologically the […]
Two engineering students at the University of Waterloo (UoW) in southern Ontario have created what they call the first autonomous vehicle to drive on a Canadian road. Michael Skupien and Alex Rodrigues, founders of Varden Labs, developed the self-driving golf cart during an e-co-op term, a program run through Waterloo’s Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology […]
By Canadian Underwriter | August 20, 2015
More than three-quarters (76%) of claims officers at property & casualty insurance companies in the United States say attracting and retaining top talent is their primary business challenge, according to Towers Watson’s P&C Claim Officer Survey. “As analytics and new technologies become more central to effective claim operations, traditional talent needs will broaden to reflect […]
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