Risk
*or, What dull insurers can teach glamorous investment bankers
By Alister Campbell | June 30, 2009
7 min read
Canada's solvency regulator, OSFI, has made another move to clarify its proposed changes to Part XIII of Canada's Insurance Companies Act, which will take effect as of Jan. 1, 2010.
By J. Brian Reeve | June 30, 2009
8 min read
Canada is swept up right now in an international current flowing (albeit with glacial speed) towards the mutual recognition of reinsurance supervision. Mutual recognition describes a situation in which a supervisor or regulator in one jurisdiction agrees to abide by the standards of a regulator in a jurisdiction where the parent company of a global […]
By David Gambrill | June 30, 2009
15 min read
Updated earthquake damage models will have a mixed effect on Canada's regional losses.
By Shelly Ericksen, Risk Management Solutions (RMS) & Marleen Nyst, Risk Management Solutions (RMS) | June 30, 2009
6 min read
With very low inflation currently at hand, one might question the reason to feature the topic in this magazine at the moment. Still, there are good reasons for not losing sight of inflation and its eventual impact on our underwriting results. Before going into these reasons, let’s make sure we are all on the same […]
By Christian Bieri, Managing Director, Products, Swiss Re Canada | June 30, 2009
5 min read
Letter to the Editor
By Canadian Red Cross | June 30, 2009
2 min read
OSFI's discussion paper on reinsurance has the industry talking about what it means to be licensed, unlicensed and the collateral implications.
By Robert McDowell & Koker Christensen | June 30, 2009
Opportunistic underwriters may want to start looking at whether language in standard business interruption policies is tailored to cover off the exact nature of the economic damage wrought by a pandemic.
By David Gambrill, Editor | May 31, 2009
3 min read
MUTATED VERSION OF H1N1 POSSIBLE BY END OF THE YEAR: MARSH Global insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh is warning businesses to be prepared for the possible outbreak of a second, more severe mutation of influenza A (H1N1) later this year. Toby L. Merlin, M. D., deputy director of the influenza coordination unit at the […]
May 31, 2009
1 min read
Once thought to be too complex an area for technological automation, commercial lines have emerged in the forefront of an eternal quest to find the ultimate, real-time data transfer between brokers and their markets.
By Craig Harris | May 31, 2009
14 min read
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