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Insurance companies are used to collecting data, but they need to do a better job of using data around race and gender to build diversity and inclusion in their senior ranks, sp...

The new name of the mutual insurer formed through the merger of La Capitale and SSQ Insurance will not use either of the existing monikers, an executive for the Quebec City-base...

Parachute Digital Solutions launches new online insurance platform in Canada ... by converting leads to sales with an immediate underwriting decision.

Shift Technology, a provider of AI-native fraud detection and claims automation solutions for the global insurance industry announced its fraud detection ...

Glen Hopkinson is now interim country manager in Canada for AXA XL Insurance. Urs Uhlmann had been AXA XL’s Canadian country manager from 2018 until this past October. On his Li...

A turnkey product and carrier agnostic online insurance platform for carriers, brokers, employers, associations, and retailers to offer life and supplemental health protection p...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people work and learn but similar to how brokerages and insurance companies continued to operate in a new environment, learning ...

Insurers should be allowed to terminate auto policies electronically if consumers consent, the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario’s CEO says. In its budget document releas...

Businesses can take extra steps to protect their remote workforce against cyber threats WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., Nov. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In the latest edition of the Chub...

MISSISSAUGA, ON, NOV. 24, 2020/insPRESS/ – FirstOnSite Restoration, Canada’s leading independent disaster restoration services provider, has strengthened its presence in Alberta...

With the global COVID-19 pandemic affecting specific sectors harder than others, brokers may see the value in the diversification of their offerings so as to not have their busi...

TORONTO, ON, NOV. 23, 2020/insPRESS/ – FIRST Insurance Funding of Canada (FIRST Canada), the industry leader in payment solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of Interac e...

TORONTO, ON, NOV. 23, 2020/insPRESS/ — Apollo Insurance Solutions Ltd. (“APOLLO Insurance”) (TSXV: APLO Reserved) is pleased to announce that Tracey Swain has joined the APOLLO ...

Aviva has agreed to sell its entire 80% shareholding in the Italian life insurance joint venture, Aviva Vita to its partner UBI Banca for €400m.

An Alberta auto insurance advisory committee has recommended the province move to a pure no-fault system delivered by private insurers, a change that the Insurance Bureau of Can...

OTTAWA – A federal agency that monitors brewing online threats warns of fraudsters dangling COVID-19-related content to fool victims into clicking on malicious links and attachm...

Irish insurtech Blink has launched a new business interruption solution as part of its parametric insurance solution offerings.

TORONTO, ON, NOV. 17, 2020/insPRESS/ – Canadian MGA, Trinity Underwriting Managers has recently expanded its team of Professional services and Technology underwriters. “I am ver...

Vancouver-Based Connected Mobility Company Ranked No. 1 in British Columbia for the second year in a row and No. 7 in Canada with Four-Year Revenue Growth of 3,612%.

Insurers are becoming more meticulous around what they deem to be a good risk and that extra scrutiny is giving brokers heavier workloads, broker leaders say, and it could force...

RSA has agreed a £7.2bn sale to Intact Financial and Tryg that will see the insurer broken up. Scandinavian insurer Tryg will pay £4.2bn for RSA’s Swedish and Norwegian business...

Interest in captives naturally increases as a hard market intensifies, but now even mid-market or smaller organizations are considering captives as an alternate way to transfer ...

Coalition is the leading provider of cyber insurance and security, combining comprehensive insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses ...

In this podcast Sarah shares her insights of the crypto insurance market for 2019 and 2020 along for the need for more education of insurers on the opportunity ...

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Firms Using iPipeline's InsureSight Data Analytics Increased Life Insurance Placements by 9% for Perm, 3% for Term. By Staff 18 mins ago.

With commercial insurance premiums on the rise in a number of business classes, and some unable to even find an insurer, a national association representing Canadian small busin...

Intact Financial Corp. is aiming to grow its brokerage subsidiary to a $3-billion-a-year operation, CEO Charles Brindamour told investment banking analysts recently. “BrokerLink...

TORONTO, ON, NOV. 10, 2020/insPRESS/ – MSA Research is pleased to advise that InsurTech North has been rescheduled to run online on April 22-23, 2021.  The 2021 virtual event is...

Some brokers expect potential deal to re-energise RSA, while others criticise the provider's "poor performance" and predict an uncertain future for its UK

Local Logic offers "the single largest location intelligence data" set in North America.

As more connected vehicles enter the automotive space, there’s a great opportunity for insurers to offer drivers more than a score based on their driving habits. Instead, said a...

A takeover of RSA Canada by Intact would still leave clients with plenty of choice in property and casualty insurance while making Intact more of an international player, an Ont...

Nov 09, 2020 (The Expresswire) -- The Worldwide "Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Healthcare Market" size is projected to reach USD 3533.2 million by ...

American insurance brokerage HUB International has acquired the assets of Leading Edge Benefit Advisors and affiliates for an unknown sum.

For years, the insurance industry was perceived as a lower risk for financial crime compared to the banking sector. As a result, it was spared the intense.

A consortium composed of Intact Financial Corporation and Nordic property and casualty insurer Tryg A/S is preparing a cash offer to acquire RSA plc for £7.2-billion (about Cdn$...

UK-based insurance firm, RSA, is in talks regarding a possible takeover. The interested parties are Canadian firm Intact Financial and Denmark-based Tryg.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The brokerage's portfolio includes home, auto, farm and commercial insurance policies. Any existing insurance coverage will remain in effect for the current policy term.

Two potential bidders are circling and proposing to split the provider.

mBnk to provide a digital platform enabling solutions for banking, financial services and insurance to the 840 million underserved people in India.

Oct. 28, 2020 – Solid investor appetite for new and mature opportunities in the InsurTech sector was again in evidence during Q3 2020, and the mid-tier funding  ...

FaithLife Financial Signs a Long-term Contract Placing Breathe Life at the Center of Its Digital Transformation Breathe Life, the enterprise...

The insurance industry needs principles-based regulation instead of a system with rules for every situation, an Allstate Canada official suggests. “If you have a good system tha...

Reid Holzworth is a prominent InsurTech entrepreneur with deep experience in both broker and insurer distribution environments. Holzworth was the founder ...

While the global COVID pandemic may have sharpened the insurance industry’s focus on providing digital solutions to customers quickly, the speed at which the industry can move r...

As part of the acquisition, WillowBee’s customers will be fully supported by Willful plans, which will allow them to gain access to additional products and capabilities for end ...

Property and casualty insurers would need to collect business interruption policy premiums for 150 years to make up for projected global output losses in 2020 related to the COV...

Foxquilt and Smarter Loans are connecting Canadians online to business and home insurance that can be tailored to their specific needs with exclusive savings on their rates - up...