Risk
Supreme Court shuts the door - but not entirely - on social host responsibility
By Chris Dunn, Partner, Dutton Brock LLP | June 30, 2006
7 min read
Beautiful beaches and superb surf set the scene for the 2006 Annual Risk & Insurance Management Society Conference held in Honolulu. After a busy days networking among the many booths at the Hawaii Convention Centre, Canadian representatives gave a warm aloha to the hosts of numerous pacific themed dinners and receptions some of which include: […]
June 30, 2006
1 min read
Business process management (BPM) avoids error of automating faulty business processes
By David Gambrill | June 30, 2006
6 min read
Risk managers and insurers need to help businesses prepare policies and procedures for dealing with a terrorist attack
By Marc Sand, CEO, V.I.P. Protection | June 30, 2006
5 min read
Industry
Insurers should be aware of changes made 10 years ago to standards for testing fire suppression systems
By Larry Watson, Director of Loss Control, ING Canada | June 30, 2006
Clear policy literature and taking enough time to explain policies to consumers should help improve the industry's public image
By Trish Tervit, Senior Consultant, Environics Communications | June 30, 2006
Insurers can pursue a number of new opportunities in the emerging alternative energy market
By Steve Smith, Partner, Jones Brown Inc. | June 30, 2006
Some time ago, the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) requested we “correct” an online news piece published on the Canadian Underwriter (CU) Web site. The article was about a Supreme Court challenge related to the sale of creditor insurance in Alberta bank branches. In Canada Western Bank v. Alberta, eight major banks asked the Supreme Court […]
3 min read
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According to a recent survey of reinsurers’ statutory underwriting results, a group of 24 property-casualty reinsurers wrote US$6.6 billion of net premiums during the three months ended March 31, 2006. The report, conducted by the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), indicates that the reinsurers’ combined ratio was 98.4%, a sight increase over the combined ratio […]
Claims
The 2006 hurricane season is expected to include 17 named storms forming in the Atlantic basin, but fewer major hurricanes will make landfall on coastal regions compared to last year, according to a Colorado State University (CSU) forecast. CSU says nine of the 17 storms predicted for the 2006 hurricane season will likely become hurricanes. […]
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