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Students who leave home for school represent a big opportunity for brokers to provide value-added advice on a variety of insurance coverage changes, but the key is for brokers is to get in front of the students before they make that rite of passage into adulthood. “It is something the broker should be aware of […]
By David Gambrill | June 28, 2018
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When Western Financial Group acquired its first non-western Canadian brokerage last week, location obviously played a factor in its acquisition strategy. The more rural, the better, the brokerage told Canadian Underwriter Tuesday. The High River, Alta.-headquartered Western completed its acquisition of Ontario-based Axion Insurance Services on June 19. The deal allows Western Financial to add […]
By Jason Contant | June 27, 2018
Insurance brokers seeking to grow their travel line of business should ask their clients if they are expecting friends or family to visit Canada in the future and, if so, whether they would be interested in purchasing “visitors to Canada” insurance on behalf of their guests. “Visitors to Canada” insurance is not a new segment […]
By David Gambrill | June 25, 2018
Brokers looking to sell cyber insurance to commercial clients should be looking to partner with non-insurance firms specializing in security and risk assessment, one Quebec-based broker advises. “Brokers need to look at not just selling insurance but partnering, and how they can provide clients with more of a turnkey solution on cyber risk,” Brian Kelly, […]
By Greg Meckbach | June 25, 2018
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Why are brokerages and carriers still heavily reliant on sending out paper cheques, even when most of their clients likely don’t even own cheque books anymore? It all boils down to data. As inefficient and costly as they may be to administer, paper cheques currently have more data points associated with them than electronic fund […]
By David Gambrill | June 22, 2018
Alexa, ask Excalibur Insurance for a car insurance quote. That possibility is just around the corner, as Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company announced Thursday that it had opened an Innovation Outpost lab in Kitchener, Ont. that will connect customers with brokers through voice technology. One of the first projects out of the lab is a new […]
By Jason Contant | June 21, 2018
Fear of technology is preventing many brokerages from reaching their strategic objectives, a digital broker said last week at Gore Mutual’s Fast Forward event in Toronto. And it’s a myth, he added, that only large companies can afford to use the latest tech wizardry. Lance Miller, CEO of digital broker SurexDirect, told delegates Thursday that […]
By Jason Contant | June 20, 2018
Western Financial Group Inc. has acquired its first non-western Canadian brokerage, Axion Insurance Services Inc. Completed on June 19, the deal will allow Western Financial to add 10 Ontario-based locations and approximately 60 insurance experts to its existing network. Kenny Nicholls, Western’s president and CEO, said in a press release that the company was “excited […]
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Usage-based insurance has raised the profile of insurers on consumers’ electronic devices, and this could be bad news for some brokers. Several auto insurers are using UBI to offer discounts based on data gather from telematics. That technology lets insurers gather data from the insured vehicles, such as distance, location, speed, sudden acceleration and hard […]
By Greg Meckbach | June 19, 2018
The Quebec National Assembly has adopted Bill 141, which will require brokerages in the province to have at least three distribution agreements in place for personal lines with insurers “that are not in the same financial group.” Hypothetically, brokerages could have distribution agreements from Intact and RSA, but an agreement with any of their subsidiaries […]
By Jason Contant | June 18, 2018
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