Industry
Insurers need to offer straight-through application processing in the post-CSIO Portal era
By Glen Piller, President and CEO, iter8 Inc. | March 31, 2006
4 min read
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The University of Western Ontario is destroying a full-scale model home in order to improve construction practices and prevent future hurricane and storm damage to residential buildings
By F. Michael Bartlett, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Ontari | March 31, 2006
Risk
Volatile interest rates play a part in insolvency risk
By Darrell Leadbetter, Jim Kovacs and Jim Harries, PACICC | March 31, 2006
Preparing for a deluge of cat claims
By David Gambrill | March 31, 2006
6 min read
Canada’s tendency to adopt U.S. regulatory trends often negatively impacts Canada’s insurance market, Kingsway Financial Services president and CEO Bill Star told guests attending the February 2006 Property Casualty Underwriters Club’s (PCUC) luncheon, entitled ‘Industry Outlook Past Year, This Year and Next.’ Star made his comments in the context of predicting financial results for Canada’s […]
March 31, 2006
Claims
Eight key ways to produce the best medical legal report
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Hey, what a show!” I was standing at the entrance of our city’s largest garden centre. Stretched out on all sides of me were thousands of tulips of every variety, in gently waving ranks, in every color of the rainbow. On this warm spring day, it was a beautiful and impressive sight. Two of my […]
By Axiom | March 31, 2006
8 min read
Reading the Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators’ (CCIR) latest consultation paper on ‘Managing Conflicts of Interest’ brings to mind a story about an absurd aspect of compelled disclosure, as told by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. Galeano relates the story of when he attempted to flee Uruguay’s dictatorship of 1973-84. He applied for a visa to […]
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In its anniversary year, the Munich Re Group achieved a record profit in 2005 of over EUR2.7 billion (CD$3.75 billion). “We have thus slightly exceeded our target,” Nikolaus von Bomhard, chairman of the board of management, said when presenting the figures. “Our solid basic business makes the achieved level of profitability sustainable. We therefore expect […]
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Buoyed by the value of its investments, the Canadian property and casualty industry’s total assets increased from CD$61.094 billion in Q4 2004 to CD$64.208 billion in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2005. According to information collected by Canada’s Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada’s P&C Q4 investment assets grew from CD$36.3 billion in 2004 to CD$40.5 […]
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