Risk
Insurance and reinsurance merger activity, both globally and in Canada, is beginning to show signs of new life after a period of relative dormancy.
By Jamie Lyons , Geoffrey Lubert & Scott Jellous | October 31, 2010
5 min read
Canada has helped fund the world's first multinational parametric reinsurance facility, located in the Caribbean. It's one example of a public-private partnership (P3) model that may serve the Canadian marketplace well as it considers the possibility of offering overland flood coverage.
By Bill LaCourt, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Swiss Re & Nikhil Da Victoria Lobo, Vice President, | October 31, 2010
Home
The Supreme Court of Canada formulates a national approach to coverage for construction deficiency claims under the CGL policy.
By Christopher R. Dunn | October 31, 2010
7 min read
Industry
Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO) 90th Annual Convention; Underwriting transparency and auto reforms emerged as key themes during the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO)'s 90th Annual Convention in Niagara Falls.
By David Gambrill, Editor & Vanessa Mariga, Associate Editor | October 31, 2010
6 min read
There is a downward pressure on all profitability drivers, interest rates, exposure growth, loss trends, reinsurance rates, expenses and regulatory capital. Canada is in fact a reflection of the state of the global reinsurance industry.
October 31, 2010
12 min read
Captives are shifting from Bermuda to Europe for a variety of reasons, including changing tax laws, incentives, technological evolution and trends in global premium growth.
By Vanessa Mariga, Associate Editor | October 31, 2010
A.M. Best Reinsurance Webinar; Reinsurance experts fix numbers to the kinds of catastrophes it would take to halt or reverse the current inertia in favour of an ongoing soft market.
4 min read
Canadian Insurance Accountants Association (CIAA)'s 47th Annual Conference; The role of Chief Information Officers has expanded to include storytelling. Today, boards expect CFOs not only to crunch the numbers, but to tell the story behind those numbers.
By Michelle Ramsay | October 31, 2010
A Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench decision that a golf cart is an automobile for the purpose of determining nofault benefits is limited in scope, but it does call into question statutory definitions of the word 'automobile' in insurance regimes throughout Canada.
By Jennifer D. Pereira | October 31, 2010
Even the most ardent ostriches in the world of underwriting D&O insurance must be aware of a trend in which the U.S. plaintiff's bar is taking an active interest in Canada's approach to class action litigation.
By Jay A.R. Cassidy | October 31, 2010
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