Industry
The new millennium is not only bringing Y2K exposures to the fore, but a sense of consumer branding. From companies, brokers through to reinsurers, the latest industry leader forums have all hosted an urgency to address consumerism. The property and casualty insurance sector has hardly been renowned for its innovative approach to identifying buyer needs […]
By Sean van Zyl, Editor | June 30, 1999
3 min read
Risk
Held against the backdrop of the nation’s capital, the 1999 Canadian Insurance Congress — seen as Canada’s premier reinsurer/primary company CEO forum — offered good news to insurers and risk managers on the treaty negotiation front. This year’s reinsurance rates, which normally come up for re-negotiation between August to November, are unlikely to show much […]
By Lowell Conn & Sean van Zyl | June 30, 1999
7 min read
The New York-based Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) released its second annual Quality Scorecard which polled 1,259 risk managers rating the service of brokers, carriers and third-party administrators (TPA). The overall performances were similar to that of last year, with brokers rising by a single satisfaction point to 74 out of a 100 while […]
June 30, 1999
1 min read
A month after Progressive announced its intention to pull out of the Canadian marketplace, its general manager continues to insist the withdrawal had nothing to with Canada’s insurance environment. Chip Conner, Progressive general manager, says industry speculation that the company was burned by an early year foray into the Alberta market is unfounded. “We’ve actually […]
National harmonization of the licensing and regulation of the adjusting profession has become a hot topic for regulators and the insurance industry in Canada. Alberta’s recent Insurance Act rewrite included a step-licensing structure as well as a provision for mandatory continuing education. The profession hopes to see similar developments across the country. Incoming Canadian Independent […]
By Lowell Conn | June 30, 1999
5 min read
The federal government’s recently released paper outlining the future of financial institutions in Canada did little to quell market rumours surrounding a potential sale of CIBC Insurance. The company, originally tabbed to be sold to U.S.-based GEICO Insurance, is now allegedly being sought by General Motors of Canada (GM). The two companies would be a […]
U.S.-based A.M. Best Company has announced it has acquired TRAC Insurance Services Ltd. — an independent Canadian insurance rating agency — and renamed it A.M. Best Canada Ltd. The acquisition of Toronto-based TRAC is the latest step in A.M. Best’s global expansion. Over the past three years, the 100-year-old rating agency has more than tripled […]
A Conning & Company reinsurance study concludes that buyers will not respond well to a general hardening of market rates. The study suggests that a reinsurance price increase will lead to a significant outflow of business from the traditional insurance sector to the alternative risk transfer market (ART). Currently comprising about 35% of total commercial […]
Claims
Canada Brokerlink Inc. posted first quarter results for this year showed business growth of 67%, and, at the same time, nearly doubling its assets to $67 million compared with the level for the same period in 1998. Revenue for first quarter of 1999 amounted to $6 million against the first quarter of 1998’s $3.6 million. […]
Dear Editor, Subject: Jokers Wild, editorial, February Issue Your editorial appears to bemoan the demise of Synchron, an event that is now about a year old. Its flavour tars the system vendors as a special interest group outside the industry, and wants to place brokers in the single solution vanguard. This journal is one of […]
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