Industry
Tom Simoncic has been appointed as president of Sedgwick’s property and international business.
By Alyssa DiSabatino | January 4, 2023
1 min read
Small business owners have a slightly better outlook on the year ahead than a month ago but their short-term outlook has worsened.
By The Canadian Press | January 4, 2023
2 min read
TORONTO – A global ransomware operator issued an apology and offered to unlock the data targeted in a ransomware attack on Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, a move cybersecurity experts say is rare, if not unprecedented, for the infamous group. LockBit, a ransomware group the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has called one of the […]
By Jason Contant | January 3, 2023
5 min read
VANCOUVER – No weather warnings or watches were posted across British Columbia for the first time in weeks, but Environment Canada says more heavy rain is on the way while flood watches are still up for large parts of Vancouver Island and the inner south coast. Communities around the Georgia Strait are also keeping a close […]
By David Gambrill | December 28, 2022
This year, we asked Canada’s P&C insurance industry executives, carriers and brokers, the most important issue facing the industry in 2023. Over the next two weeks, Canadian Underwriter will be presenting in our digital newsletter all of the answers we received from participating company executives. Three new outlooks will be presented each day in alphabetical […]
By David Gambrill | December 16, 2022
Susan Williams-Bonet is Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company’s new vice president of Ontario for the company’s P&C operations. She takes over for Josie Porto, who retires this year following a distinguished 36-year career with Wawanesa. “Together with our broker partners, we want to serve more Ontario businesses, farms and families,” Carol Jardine, Wawanesa’s president of Canadian […]
By David Gambrill | December 14, 2022
The Bank of Canada hiked its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 4.25 per cent, the highest it's been since January 2008.
By Jason Contant | December 7, 2022
B.C.'s public auto insurance company has changed its process for dealing with accident victims and has improved outcomes
By Phil Porado | December 5, 2022
3 min read
Ontario won't allow homes to be built on floodplains, Ontario's premier says, after feds rule out flood compensation in greenbelt builds.
By Alyssa DiSabatino | December 5, 2022
Ontario’s new legal tort of ‘intrusion upon seclusion’ does not apply in class actions against data aggregators that have been hacked, the Court of Appeal has confirmed. Nine years ago, the courts came up with the new tort of intrusion upon seclusion to cover a situation in which one bank employee hacked the personal information […]
By David Gambrill | December 2, 2022
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