Industry
Prices will firm up and standard insurers will tighten underwriting rules, Kingsway Financial Services Inc. president Bill Star says, addressing media and stakeholders at the company’s first annual Analyst & Investor Day. “The result could see more business bypassing standard insurers to the non-standard market,” he adds. Through the morning, the company’s U.S. and Canadian […]
November 30, 1999
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Kemper Canada has gone online with its HUON system, announcing their personal lines automobile and property markets are now being supported by The HUON Solution. “We now have the system to facilitate a winning environment,” says Judy Maddocks, president of Kemper. “As Kemper Canada introduces HUON over the coming months, we will start to experience […]
Commercial
The 44th annual Toronto Insurance Conference (TIC) black tie dinner was held recently at the Four Season’s Hotel in Toronto. The event’s guest-of-honour, Senator Trevor Eyton, provided an after dinner keynote address. Guests included (clockwise from upper left): American International Companies director, commercial marketing K.K. Leong, The Citadel Assurance president Ernst Notz, TIC director Stewart […]
The Supreme Court of Ontario has ruled in favour of insurers who mounted a challenge against a City of Toronto bylaw outlawing insurers from directing their insureds to preferred bodyshops. “This is a big victory for the industry and for the insureds,” remarks one stakeholder, CGU Group Ltd. claims manager Wayne Roth. According to the […]
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Most people in the industry think he has lost his marbles, launching a new property and casualty insurance company in Canada from the ground up in what is widely seen as an overcrowded and cutthroat market. To say that Brian Johnston, who was the president of Liberty Canada Holdings until resigning in early 1997, is […]
By Sean van Zyl, Editor | November 30, 1999
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The 1990s will likely go down as the most momentous period in the modern history of the property and casualty insurance industry, a senior executive with experience dating back to the post WWII era recently stated. From “riches to rags,” another executive referred with a note of irony to the industry’s course over the past […]
By Lowell Conn and Sean van Zyl | November 30, 1999
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Marketing, distribution and technology are no longer separate components of the insurance business, delegates were told at the Institute for International Research’s recently held Distribution & Marketing in Property & Casualty Insurance conference. Multi-distribution channels including call centers and the Internet are becoming the standard by which the successful insurers will be measured. And, with […]
By By Lowell Conn | November 30, 1999
Risk
With increasing attention being brought to bear on the cost of distribution and how to improve competitiveness, insurers and independent brokers alike are repositioning. This, however, is having a noticeable impact on the industry's "traditional relationships," leaving many within the industry unsure to the "what", "where" and "how" of the future of the independent broker profession.
By Doug Davis of Davis Consulting Inc. | November 30, 1999
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The recently held Insurance Corporation of British Columbia's (ICBC) auto repair symposium drew focus on the forces of change sweeping through the industry, in particular the close relationship that exists between property and casualty insurers and shop operators. Similar to the cost-efficiency driven rationalization occurring across other provinces, B.C.'s own market should be preparing for change if the existing independent players plan on surviving into the new millennium, the speakers warn.
By Brian Harper, editor of Bodyshop Magazine | November 30, 1999
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New York City-based Cybersettle.com, Inc. — an online company that resolves insurance disputes — has set up shop in Canada, settling its first Canadian dispute in late October. The website saves insurers and insureds the cost of court action, with both parties exchanging statements of claim and three different settlement offers. The website evaluates the […]
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