Manitoba Public Insurance released its 2009 annual report. MPI reported income from annual operations of $86.9 million. Investment income of $96.3 million helped reduce the cost of the average Basic Autopac premium by $103. The Basic plan also surpassed its goals by providing claimants with 86 cents in benefits for every $1 in premium [...]
Manitoba Public Insurance is holding its annual Public Review Meetings this month. MPI said it hopes to listen, answer questions and hear concerns of residents. The meeting schedule is as follows: Portage la Prairie – Monday, June 21, 2010 Beginning at 7:00 PM PCU Centre Daily Graphic Community Room 245 Royal Road Winnipeg North [...]
Manitoba Public Insurance is proposing to decrease auto insurance rates next year, in addition to providing its customers with a $92 million rebate in the spring. In its general insurance rate application filed with the Public Utilities Board, the corporation is proposing an overall average four per cent decrease in premium revenue for the 2011/12 [...]
Manitoba motorists could soon see flashing purple lights on vehicles of funeral operators during a procession, Manitoba Public Insurance announced. “For maximum visibility these distinctive flashing purple lights will be placed on vehicles of funeral operators ,” said Ward Keith, Registrar of Motor Vehicles. “After a thorough review it was concluded that these lights [...]
A Manitoba RCMP officer who has been charged with attempted fraud over $5,000 says that Manitoba Public Insurance humiliated and embarrassed him in its investigation. Cpl. Houman Shoaai has now filed a lawsuit against MPI. In 2009, the off-duty RCMP Cpl. Houmon Shoaai crashed his Hummer H3. He said he swerved to avoid hitting a [...]
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says damage from heavy rain over the last weekend in May will tally well over $1 million. Selinger is promising disaster financial assistance to help homeowners deal with flooded land, and to help municipalities repair washed out roads and other infrastructure. Selinger says the figure does not include a sewage backup [...]
Manitoba is set to join other provinces such as Ontario in banning negative-option billing. The NDP government is proposing legislation that would disallow companies from charging consumers for services they didn’t ask for. Penalties would range up to $300,000 in fines. Negative-option billing stirred controversy across Canada in the 1990s when some cable companies gave [...]
Proposed amendments to Manitoba’s Drivers and Vehicles Act would allow for the full disclosure of names and administrative actions taken by the registrar of motor vehicles, Attorney General Andrew Swan, minister responsible for Manitoba Public Insurance, announced. These amendments would enable Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) to disclose administrative sanctions against vehicle dealers and salespeople, [...]
Tampering with a motor vehicle’s anti-theft device or its airbag system would become an offence in Manitoba under proposed amendments to the Highway Traffic Act, introduced by Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton. The amendments address concerns, including those of Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI), that electronic immobilizers have knowingly been tampered with during installation of [...]
Manitobans who have an Enhanced Identification Card (EIC) are reminded that they can trade it in for an Enhanced Driver’s License (EDL) at no additional cost on a one-time only basis as part of their first driver’s license renewal. “There is no charge to the card holder if the conversion is done with their first [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. The Manitoba government is moving to prevent criminals from using body armour and armoured vehicles. The NDP government has tabled a bill that would require anyone buying outer protection to get a permit, unless they were a police officer or corrections guard. People who sell body armour [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. It appears that driver’s ed works, at least in Manitoba. Nine of 10 Driver Education students say the course helped them to be a more careful driver, according to a survey conducted by Manitoba Public Insurance. The survey was conducted found that more than nine in 10 [...]
Spring has officially arrived, along with expectations of flooding in the Red River Valley. The Insurance Bureau of Canada has reminded homeowners in Manitoba that while overland flooding is not covered by insurance, there are steps they can take to protect their belongings from water damage. To help prevent water damage during the spring thaw: [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. Nearly 300 immobilizer-equipped vehicles were stolen last year in Manitoba because the keys were left in either the ignition or elsewhere in the passenger compartment, according to Manitoba Public Insurance claims data. These immobilized vehicles were stolen after the owners had left their keys in the ignition, [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. Manitoba’s Red River Valley can expect another flood this spring, but it’s unlikely to be as bad as last year. Flood forecasters with the provincial government say with average weather over the next several weeks, the river south of Morris will be three to nine metres lower [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. A new higher tech one-part driver’s license and new, multi-year Autopac renewal system are now available for Manitobans, Manitoba Public Insurance President and CEO Marilyn McLaren announced. Now, Manitobans who apply for or renew a drivers’ license will receive Manitoba’s new one-piece driver’s license. Those Manitobans who [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. Manitoba Public Insurance reported favourable financial results as it enters the final quarter of the fiscal year, the time when winter driving weather conditions traditionally result in a greater number of claims. Donald Palmer, MPI’s Vice-President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer said that after three quarters [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. One Winnipeg man found out the hard way that honesty, albeit criminal in intent, doesn’t always pay. The man had opened an auto theft claim with Manitoba Public Insurance, but since he had had a similar theft claim three years earlier, he was brought in for an [...]
