Risk
Risk managers are increasingly selecting their brokers through a formalized procurement process that must be done properly in order to keep it from becoming a glorified "beauty pageant"
By Craig Harris | September 30, 2007
10 min read
In many situations, it may be better for insurers to adapt -- rather than to replace outright -- their aging legacy systems
By Glen Piller, President and CEO, Iter8 Incorporated | September 30, 2007
6 min read
Commercial Management Systems (CMS) can help brokers make their best asset, diversity, work for them instead of against them.
By Michel Vigeant, Vice President Sales and Business Development, Policy Works Inc. | September 30, 2007
Provincial broker associations have different attitudes and approaches towards asserting brokers' autonomy from insurance company ownership and control
ERM models should tell a company how much capital it should have, not just how much it has now
By Daniel B. Finn, Director, Conning & Company | September 30, 2007
Edmonton residents are more likely than Toronto residents to mitigate future flood risk; not surprisingly, Edmonton has a more comprehensive basement flooding education program
By Dan Sandink, Research Coordinator, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction | September 30, 2007
9 min read
I speak from experience: many times in my career, I wished I was a deck hand aboard a steamer headed for Cartagena, with my only problem being how to explain to my captain that I had missed a spot swabbing the deck owing to too much grog the night before. “What else could I do, […]
By Frank Cain, Manager, Commercial Insurance, Michael Palermo & Associates Insurance Ltd. | September 30, 2007
7 min read
Firms looking to cash in on a soft commercial lines market will need to consider seriously their technology solutions
By Patrick Durepos, President, Keal Technology | September 30, 2007
A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in Blank v. Canada 2006 SCC 30 settles certain points regarding litigation privilege, Ted Bock, a partner at Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP, told attendees during at seminar the Canadian Independent Adjusters’ Association (CIAA)’s general meeting and conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. But the decision also opens […]
By Laura Kupcis | September 30, 2007
Our way of life is killing us, one could easily conclude from current research on climate change. In its June 2007 interim report to the Canadian government, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) outlined its research findings on the state of today’s environment. It says: “Scientific research is increasingly certain […]
By David Gambrill, Editor | September 30, 2007
4 min read
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