All the headlines from our Canada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 12 2019 // Canadian farmers — grappling with with lower crop income, adverse weather and a trade dispute with China — are using precision-agriculture technology aimed at reducing lending and insurance costs.Collecting...
Dec 10 2019 // Brown & Brown Programs Inc. has agreed to acquire the assets of the British Columbia, Canada-based managing general agency Special Risk Insurance Managers (SRIM). The transaction is expected to close effective January...
Dec 9 2019 // Canadian regulators have approved the sale of Genworth Financial Inc.’s majority stake in its Canadian unit to asset manager Brookfield Business Partners, the companies said on Monday.Genworth said in October that...
Dec 6 2019 // Gallagher, the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based insurance broker, has named Dave Partington as CEO of its Canadian retail property/casualty brokerage operations, where he will lead the strategy and culture for continued growth...
Dec 5 2019 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has expanded its global surety team with the addition of Andrew Adams as head of Surety in Canada.In this new role, Adams will establish and expand BHSI’s...
Dec 3 2019 // Canadian insurance broker Westland Insurance Group Ltd. has appointed Keri Fraser as its chief people officer (CPO), effective Nov. 12, 2019. Fraser joins Westland from Colliers, where she was vice president Human...
Nov 13 2019 // Insurance broker HUB International recently named Jay Virdi as its chief sales officer for its cannabis insurance and risk services in the U.S. and Canada. As chief sales officer, Virdi will focus on further developing...
Nov 8 2019 // Hub International Ltd., a Chicago-based insurance broker, announced it has acquired the assets of W.R. Carey Corp.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Carey Corp. is an...
Nov 8 2019 // Global insurance services firm H.W. Kaufman Group and its subsidiary Burns & Wilcox, a North American wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager, have announced numerous leadership promotions. Twenty-three...
Nov 5 2019 // Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based insurance broker, announced it has acquired R Bruce Inc., which does business as RBI Advisory Group.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Okotoks, Alberta,...
Nov 4 2019 // A June data breach that hit Canada’s Desjardins Group has affected all of the financial cooperative’s 4.2 million members, prompting government reforms to protect personal information in the Canadian province...
Oct 24 2019 // Constellation Insurance Holdings, founded by industry veteran Anurag Chandra, former CEO of Prosperity Life Insurance Group, has partnered with Canadian institutional investors, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec...
Oct 9 2019 // Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, announced it has acquired PDF Financial Group Inc.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, PDF is an independent...
Oct 7 2019 // Hub International Ltd., a Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, announced it has acquired ProCorp Financial Inc.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ProCorp Financial is a...
Oct 7 2019 // Hurricane Dorian hit Atlantic Canada on Sept. 7 causing more than C$105 million (US$78.9 million) in insured damage, said Insurance Bureau of Canada, quoting the Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ).*The IBC...
Oct 3 2019 // Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based insurance broker, announced it has acquired the Canadian employee consulting firm, Regency Advisory Corp.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Saskatoon,...
Oct 2 2019 // Intact Financial Corp., the Toronto-based property and casualty insurer, announced it has completed the acquisition of On Side Developments Ltd., the parent company of On Side Restoration.With more than 1,200 employees and...
Oct 1 2019 // Cyber-attacks are named as the leading risk for business executives in the United States, Canada and Europe, according to a survey of business leaders published by the World Economic Forum, in partnership with Zurich...
Sep 26 2019 // Everest Insurance announced it has purchased all outstanding remaining shares of its joint venture partner, Victoria, Canada-based Salus Systems LLC.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. An IT consulting...
Sep 12 2019 // Apollo Insurance Solutions, a Canadian insurance marketplace, has entered the American market with a liability insurance product tailored for educators in California. The product allows consultants, instructors, and...