Industry
The sixth annual GK KOVA Cup drew employees from Aviva Canada and Giffin Koerth Forensic Engineering together on Apr. 16 at Moss Park Arena. Team Blue/Our Faults defeated Team White/No Faults by a score of 14-9. A post-game reception was held at the Pat Quinn Lounge, where Ron Koerth was given a special award for […]
May 31, 2008
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HKMB HUB International held its 3rd annual Hockey Challenge for Charity at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on April 21. After insurance industry colleagues chose to pit their hockey skills against one another for fun, HKMB organized their first Hockey Challenge for Charity game in 2006. Held at the RICOH Coliseum in 2007, the event raised […]
Risk
The Risk Management Counsel of Canada (RMC), a national network of law firms that works with the insurance industry, recently held its annual insurance industry social event at the Steam Whistle Brewing’s historic Roundhouse in Toronto. The Event entitled, ‘CANAD-OPOLY’ included attendee participation and exposure to regional-themed food, entertainment and refreshments. WICC (the Women in […]
Claims
The Honourable Order of the Blue Goose International, Ontario Pond held its 8th annual Scotch Nosing on Apr. 24 at Jamie Kennedy at the Gardiner in Toronto. Dozens of noses attended this exclusive event, including an esteemed panel of judges. Throughout the evening, guests sampled some of Scotland’s rarest and finest single malts and enjoyed […]
Alberta’s court ruling that eliminated the province’s Cdn$4,000 cap on minor auto injury claims has led some experts to estimate that mandatory coverages in that province are under-priced by 25%, said Julie Dickson, superintendent of OSFI. Dickson made the remark during a recent speech at the Langdon Hall Property and Casualty Insurance Industry Forum in […]
Auto
Canadian tort awards in catastrophic cases over the past eight years have increased from between Cdn$600,000 and Cdn$7000,000 to between Cdn$10 million and Cdn$15 million, Jess Bush, partner with Blaney McMurtry LLP, told delegates at the Insurance Law: Spring Update 2008 in Toronto on May 15. Health care costs are “going through the roof,” he […]
B. C.’s revised Insurance Act might not be passed until 2010 — roughly seven years after the Supreme Court of Canada found B. C.’s Insurance Act was antiquated and needed a re-write, B. C. political affairs columnist Vaughn Palmer told a convention of the Insurance Brokers Association of B. C. (IBABC) With much fanfare on […]
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EGI Financial Holdings Inc. (TSX:EFH) says it is poised to take advantage of the hardening market conditions now developing in 2008. “With competitive conditions persisting within the non-standard auto line of business, we have remained focused on continued diversification efforts and profitably growing our niche products division,” EGI Financial CEO Douglas McIntyre said in a […]
Record snowfalls and severe winter storms in central Canada caused ING Canada’s 2008 Q1 profit to shrink from Cdn$126.2 million down to Cdn$23 million. ING Canada also cited lower operating income and declines in equity markets as factors in its 2008 Q1 results. “The harsh winter conditions during the first three months of the year […]
Gordon Findlay, the man behind Axiom, is hanging up his pen after 12 years of offering wisdom to the industry in the form of fiction
By Vanessa Mariga | May 31, 2008
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