All the headlines from our Canada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 17 2020 // Canada saw powerful a series of powerful thunderstorms in June, which brought hail greater than the size of tennis balls and caused extensive damage and flooding throughout the greater Calgary metro region, said Aon in its...
Jul 9 2020 // A Canadian insurtech focused on small business insurance said it raised $3.5 million in seed financing.Foxquilt, a Toronto-based MGA startup, said the funding will help it become a full-service insurance provider with a...
Jul 8 2020 // Canadian and U.S. cannabis companies are facing a spike in already high costs of insurance to protect top executives from personal liability, following a slew of lawsuits by disgruntled investors alleging fraud and...
Jul 7 2020 // Koskie Minsky LLP and the Merchant Law Group have launched a proposed national class action lawsuit alleging that Canadian insurance companies have breached their contracts with business owners by refusing to pay for...
Jun 26 2020 // OTTAWA— Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a driver in a gig economy case that paves the way for a class action suit calling for Uber Technologies Inc. to recognize drivers in Canada as company...
Jun 26 2020 // Canadian laboratory testing company LifeLabs failed to adequately protect sensitive health information of millions of people, resulting in one of the biggest data breaches in the country last year, privacy commissioners...
Jun 23 2020 // In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. The fumes made the retired couple feel nauseous, dizzy, and short of...
Jun 15 2020 // Insurance broker Marsh announced two senior appointments within Marsh JLT Specialty’s Renewable Energy team, as part of its continued expansion in the global renewable energy sector.Joanne Silberberg has been...
Jun 15 2020 // Last year’s collapse of Canadian cryptocurrency trading platform QuadrigaCX was due to a Ponzi scheme operated by founder Gerald Cotten, who died suddenly in December 2018, the country’s biggest securities...
Jun 9 2020 // Genworth MI Canada Inc, which runs the largest Canadian private residential mortgage insurer, said on Monday it has no plans to change its underwriting policy for debt service ratio limits, minimum credit score and...
Jun 2 2020 // Lloyd’s announced the appointment of Marc Lipman as president, Lloyd’s Canada, and attorney-in-fact (AIF) for Lloyd’s Underwriters.Lipman assumes the role of AIF from Lisa Duval, who took the position...
May 22 2020 // Coalition, the cyber insurance and security managing general agent, announced it is offering its products and services to Canada-based businesses.The San Francisco-based company described the offering as proactive...
May 20 2020 // Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced that it would stop selling its talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder in the United States and Canada, making the decision after a consumer products “portfolio reassessment...
May 13 2020 // Major insurers Zurich and Chubb increased their insurance cover for a Canadian oil sands pipeline over the last year, Canadian regulatory filings show.The Trans Mountain pipeline, which ships types of crude oil and refined...
May 11 2020 // Carolina Vasquez lost track of days and nights, unable to see the sunlight while stuck for two weeks in a windowless cruise ship cabin as a fever took hold of her body.On the worst night of her encounter with COVID-19, the...
May 7 2020 // Chris Snider has been named head of Risk Services for Zurich Canada.Formerly the manager of Risk Services – Property, Snider fills a role that was vacated by Scott Thomas, who was named Head of Human Resources. Snider...
Apr 28 2020 // Floods have forced mandatory evacuations in parts of Fort McMurray, the hub for Canada’s oil sands industry, even as the province of Alberta tries to stem the spread of the coronavirus.The Regional Municipality of...
Apr 23 2020 // Lions Gate Underwriting, the Vancouver-based specialist managing general agent, has launched a new Environmental Insurance product as part of its coverage offering.The program is being underwritten by Great American...
Apr 9 2020 // Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), an industry association for Canada’s home, auto and business insurers, on Wednesday said its members would lower costs for auto insurance to reflect reduced driving during the...
Apr 6 2020 // A class action lawsuit has been filed against Canada’s top indemnity insurers for breach of contract in their refusal to pay business interruption claims from the COVID-19 crisis.“Indemnity insurers are...