Category: Canadian Insurance

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Western Financial Insurance Company and PetFirst Healthcare introduce more pet insurance options

By on Dec 01, 2010 in Animals and Pets, Canadian Insurance

Western Financial Insurance Company, PetFirst Healthcare and Petfinder.com have joined efforts to begin offering Canadian pet owners another option for pet insurance with flexible coverage to suit every pet parent. PetFirst Healthcare of Jeffersonville, Indiana set their sights on the Canadian pet insurance market with help from their partners at Petfinder.com, an online, searchable database [...]

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CAA Insurance adds Accident Forgiveness endorsement in Nova Scotia

By on Nov 30, 2010 in Auto & Trucking, Canadian Insurance

The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has approved an application from the CAA Insurance Company that will allow the insurer to offer an accident forgiveness endorsement. The Company explained to the Board that it offers a similar endorsement in other provinces, and that agents in Nova Scotia had indicated to it that a market [...]

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Scotiabank opens second retail insurance centre

By on Nov 30, 2010 in Canadian Insurance, Company News

Scotiabank Group is expanding its line of ScotiaLife Financial insurance products and is opening a new insurance centre in downtown Toronto. “Insurance remains a key focus for the Scotiabank Group,” said Chris Hodgson, Group Head, Global Wealth Management, Scotiabank, in a statement. “We see tremendous growth opportunities in Canada and the expansion of our insurance [...]

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Motion to reduce insurance premiums for drivers with winter tires

By on Nov 30, 2010 in Auto & Trucking, Canadian Insurance, Road Safety

A motion that calls on the insurance industry to reduce premiums for drivers who use winter tires has been passed by the Ontario Legislature. Bill Mauro, MPP for Thunder Bay-Atikokan, introduced the Private Member’s Motion, saying that reducing insurance premiums for drivers who use winter tires would help consumers. He said winter tires can be [...]

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Bill would create marijuana grow op registry

By on Nov 29, 2010 in Canadian Government, Canadian Insurance, Home Insurance

Ontario MPP Lisa MacLeod (Nepean-Carleton) has introduced Bill 139, Clandestine Drug Operation Prevention Act, 2010, which would target marijuana grow ops and establish a provincial registry to ensure the protection of Ontario homebuyers in a bill she tabled today. MacLeod says currently Ontario lacks tools to protect homebuyers or realtors from properties that were grow [...]

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Jewelry Appraisal Tips

By on Nov 25, 2010 in Ask The Expert, Canadian Insurance, Featured

View the video here on your mobile device. Carol Cheney, Director of Insurance Services for Harling’s Jewellers in Vancouver, BC shares some valuable tips when it comes time to get your jewelry appraised. Carol Cheney:  We recommend every three to five years, insurance jewelry appraisals are appraising a piece of jewelry that’s made of commodities [...]

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Swiss Re, ICLR call for Canadian overland flood insurance solution

By on Nov 23, 2010 in Canadian Insurance, Home Insurance, Natural Disasters

A new study released by the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) and supported by Swiss Re outlines steps and solutions to resolve the problem of Canadian homeowners being unable to purchase insurance for overland flood damages. Currently Canadian homeowners cannot purchase overland flood insurance and instead are left to rely on government-provided financial assistance [...]

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SCM Risk Management Services launches iClarify in BC

By on Nov 23, 2010 in Canadian Insurance, Company News

SCM Risk Management Services (RMS), in partnership with the Insurance Brokers Association of BC (IBABC), has announced the official pilot launch of iClarify services in British Columbia. More than 50 brokerages across the province have been selected to take part in the testing phase, which is expected to continue throughout the remainder of 2010, with [...]

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SaskTel cell phone insurance offered by eSecuritel

By on Nov 23, 2010 in Canadian Insurance

Saskatchewan communications provider SaskTel is offering its clients cellular phone insurance through US-based eSecuritel. The program, which marks the first time SaskTel is delivering a cell phone insurance option to its customers, offers subscribers with a replacement device if their existing handset is lost, stolen, damaged or suffers electronic issues after the original manufacturer’s warranty [...]

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Manulife Financial plans to reach $4 billion net income in 2015

By on Nov 23, 2010 in Canadian Insurance

Manulife Financial Corp. says it expects to nearly triple its net profits to $4 billion a year by 2015. President and chief executive Donald Guloien told investors at a conference in Toronto on November 19 that the financial recovery by Canada’s largest insurance company will follow “a very good glide path” over the next four [...]

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ICBC Q3 results reflect safe driving, low operating costs

By on Nov 22, 2010 in Auto & Trucking, Canadian Insurance, Financial Reports

ICBC’s third quarter was highlighted by news of reductions to both basic and optional insurance rates for a combined savings to customers of more than $80 million. As of November 1, ICBC’s basic insurance rates dropped by 2.4 per cent and optional insurance premiums were reduced by three per cent. Both changes run for a [...]

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Alberta Motor Association auto insurance quotes available through Kanetix.ca

By on Nov 19, 2010 in Auto & Trucking, Canadian Insurance

Auto insurance quotes from AMA Insurance are now available online to Alberta drivers through the Kanetix.ca auto insurance quote comparison service. Kanetix has offered Alberta auto insurance quotes since 2000. “Kanetix is excited at the opportunity to introduce our shoppers to AMA Insurance,” said George Small, Co-founder of Kanetix.ca. “AMA Insurance complements our commitment to [...]

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Alberta’s feeder cattle producers get new insurance program

By on Nov 18, 2010 in Agriculture, Canadian Insurance

Alberta beef producers have a new tool to help handle volatile market prices and uncertainty around the Canadian dollar as they prepare their cattle for market. Cattle Price Insurance Program (CPIP)-Feeder is the second insurance program to become available within the CPIP suite of programs and provides beef producers with protection against price risk, currency [...]

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On-the-spot insurance confirmation at plate renewal in Ontario

By on Nov 16, 2010 in Auto & Trucking, Canadian Insurance

Starting November 29, a new system will help keep uninsured drivers off Ontario’s roads by providing on-the-spot confirmation of insurance when drivers go to renew their license plate. In Ontario, it is mandatory for all vehicles to have valid insurance coverage. Currently, drivers are required to provide proof of insurance when renewing their vehicle’s license [...]

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OSFI releases revised MCT Guidelines

By on Nov 15, 2010 in Canadian Insurance

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has introduced a minimum gross capital level in its 2011 Minimum Capital Test Guideline, to be effective January 1, 2011. The Office said it would appreciate industry comments on the revised draft 2011 MCT Guideline prior to November 30, 2010. In a letter, OSFI said: As [...]

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Alberta Level 1 and 2 Licensing Program Discount

By on Nov 10, 2010 in Canadian Insurance, Company News, Featured, ILScorp Insider

View the video here on your mobile device. Albertans can get a kick start to their careers with ILScorp’s Licensing Program – and for this week only, at a 10% discount. Save 10% on ILScorp’s Alberta Level 1 Licensing Program, or the Alberta Level 2 Licensing Program until November 16, 2010. You can also get [...]

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Hurricane Igor caused over $65 million in insured damage in Canada

By on Nov 09, 2010 in Canadian Insurance, Natural Disasters

According to preliminary estimates, Hurricane Igor was one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s most disastrous storms, with total insured losses of more than $65 million. The number was reported by Property Claim Services Canada (PCS-Canada), a service that tracks insured losses arising from catastrophic events in Canada. Data collected by PCS-Canada confirms that several thousand claims [...]

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Ontario brokers support bill to ban credit scoring

By on Nov 08, 2010 in Canadian Government, Canadian Insurance

The Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO) is applauding Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Mike Colle’s introduction today of his private member’s Bill 130: The Homeowners Insurance Credit Scoring Ban Act, 2010 which bans the use of credit scoring on personal property insurance. Currently, a growing number of insurers are using a person’s credit [...]

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Zurich Spill Reporting Online System available in Canada

By on Nov 08, 2010 in Canadian Insurance, Company News

Just in time for treacherous winter road conditions, Zurich’s Canadian customers can now access the company’s Spill Reporting Online System. The online service assists companies with the cleanup of spills if any company vehicle is involved in an accident that requires emergency environmental spill clean-up. The Spill Reporting Online System was first launched in the [...]

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