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Josh Recamara Aug 20, 2026

AXIS Capital names Jim Rhyner to lead financial lines, programs and Canada business

Rhyner takes over a book growing at 11% with a combined ratio under 90 - and his explicit Canada mandate signals AXIS is keeping its North American financial lines strategy integrated rather than treating Canada as a regional afterthought

Josh Recamara Aug 20, 2026

Intact built a miniature house and destroyed it five ways

Whether a handcrafted hailstorm at 1:12 scale changes policyholder behaviour is an open question - but the prevention strategy behind it is more substantial than the videos suggest

Josh Recamara Aug 20, 2026

Sun Life's AI advisor tools are live - but the E-23 governance race is the bigger story

When every major insurer uses the same "privacy built in from the beginning" framing, it stops being a differentiator and starts being a compliance baseline - and the OSFI E-23 deadline is why

Josh Recamara Aug 20, 2026

AI efficiency gains mean nothing if insurers target headcount before examining the work

Deloitte Canada's Sonia Sood says the insurers most likely to get AI transformation right are those that start from the work itself - and that has direct implications for the broker partnerships that depend on insurer capacity

Branislav Urosevic Aug 19, 2026

How brokers can help clients cut their car theft risk before it hits their premium

Auto theft remains a major driver of personal lines claims and premiums - Équité Association's Bryan Gast sets out the combination of habits, devices and safeguards that meaningfully reduces a client's risk

Branislav Urosevic Aug 19, 2026

Gallagher Re creates digital risk unit as AI reshapes accumulation

The CrowdStrike outage caused up to US$5.4 billion in economic damage to Fortune 500 companies - a fraction of which was insured. This unit is designed to close that gap

Mark Rosanes Aug 19, 2026

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