Industry
ONTARIO’S NEW ELECTRONIC CLAIMS PROCESSING SYSTEM, HCAI, TO BE RE-INTRODUCED IN STAGES Health Claims for Auto Insurance (HCAI), an electronic system for processing auto insurance claims, is once again entering a pilot phase, starting on Sept. 1, 2009. HCAI was shut down in April 2008 at the request of the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC). […]
June 30, 2009
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Risk
During the tenure of its incoming president, Patti Kernaghan, the CIAA is planning to approach the industry for guidance in planning what the association's future role should be; it also plans to be accessible to potential new recruits.
By Vanessa Mariga. Associate Editor | June 30, 2009
5 min read
*or, What dull insurers can teach glamorous investment bankers
By Alister Campbell | June 30, 2009
7 min read
Canada's solvency regulator, OSFI, has made another move to clarify its proposed changes to Part XIII of Canada's Insurance Companies Act, which will take effect as of Jan. 1, 2010.
By J. Brian Reeve | June 30, 2009
8 min read
Claims
Alberta's Court of Appeal has ruled that the province's cap on damages for minor auto injuries is constitutional, since it is only one piece of a broader legislative scheme that includes treatment protocols and payments for minor injury victims.
By David Gambrill, Editor & Vanessa Mariga, Associate Editor | June 30, 2009
Canada is swept up right now in an international current flowing (albeit with glacial speed) towards the mutual recognition of reinsurance supervision. Mutual recognition describes a situation in which a supervisor or regulator in one jurisdiction agrees to abide by the standards of a regulator in a jurisdiction where the parent company of a global […]
By David Gambrill | June 30, 2009
15 min read
Updated earthquake damage models will have a mixed effect on Canada's regional losses.
By Shelly Ericksen, Risk Management Solutions (RMS) & Marleen Nyst, Risk Management Solutions (RMS) | June 30, 2009
6 min read
With very low inflation currently at hand, one might question the reason to feature the topic in this magazine at the moment. Still, there are good reasons for not losing sight of inflation and its eventual impact on our underwriting results. Before going into these reasons, let’s make sure we are all on the same […]
By Christian Bieri, Managing Director, Products, Swiss Re Canada | June 30, 2009
Letter to the Editor
By Canadian Red Cross | June 30, 2009
2 min read
OSFI's discussion paper on reinsurance has the industry talking about what it means to be licensed, unlicensed and the collateral implications.
By Robert McDowell & Koker Christensen | June 30, 2009
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