Insurance News

150 structures confirmed lost to Bald Range fire as evacuees begin filing claims

150 structures confirmed lost to Bald Range fire as evacuees begin filing claims

First official damage count is in - here is how to start your claim

Josh Recamara Aug 20, 2026
AXIS Capital names Jim Rhyner to lead financial lines, programs and Canada business

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

Intact built a miniature house and destroyed it five ways

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

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

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

Intact beats catastrophic impairment claim after surveillance and expert dispute

Intact beats catastrophic impairment claim after surveillance and expert dispute

Partial surveillance footage and unqualified experts collide in a CAT dispute

TD General wins IRB clawback despite claimant's section 44 defence

TD General wins IRB clawback despite claimant's section 44 defence

A section 44 exam admission wasn't enough to save this claimant from IRB repayment

SGI Canada loses MIG argument over its own psychological report

SGI Canada loses MIG argument over its own psychological report

Its own report came back to bite this insurer at LAT

Intact Insurance defeats special award bid after Minor Injury Guideline loss

Intact Insurance defeats special award bid after Minor Injury Guideline loss

She beat the $3,500 cap - and her insurer avoided a costly penalty too

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

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

IB TALK

Tariffs, resilience, and housing demand are the forces reshaping construction risk

Navacord's Robert Beeston breaks down how these pressures are colliding to change how construction risk gets priced and placed

How trucking risk is evolving in Canada – from cargo theft to driver training to broker liability

NFP's Randy Ramkissoon says one GPS tracker isn't enough anymore – thieves know where to look, and the claims are getting more severe

Canadian businesses know their nat cat exposure – they just don't know what it means

BFL Canada's Hector Plascencia says the gap between identifying a risk and actually understanding its business impact is where most organizations fall short

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