All the headlines from our Canada Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 11 2019 // AXA XL has launched a local captive practice in Canada which will be led by expert Alonso Y. Tello.Tello’s appointment is part of AXA XL’s continued growth to bring in expertise and expand the group’s...
Sep 5 2019 // The cannabis market in North America will be worth $47.3 billion by 2024, a new report shows.The report out this week paints a positive portrait of the cannabis industry in the U.S. and Canada that “is growing at an...
Sep 5 2019 // insurance broker Marsh announced senior leadership appointments within its Property and Financial and Professional Liability (FINPRO) Practices.Michael Rouse has assumed leadership of Marsh’s U.S. Property Practice....
Aug 30 2019 // Canadian insurer The Co-operators has purchased the Saint Jérôme, Quebec-headquartered broker, Cadieux Beausejour Dupras Inc.Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The brokerage’s portfolio includes...
Aug 26 2019 // Canadian broker Westland Insurance Group Ltd. announced the acquisition of First West Insurance Services, a subsidiary of First West Credit Union, effective Sept. 30, 2019.Financial details of the transaction were not...
Aug 16 2019 // AXA XL has added Jennifer Arezes to its property insurance team in Canada. Arezes is based in Toronto and will work alongside Ian Rutherford, head of Property, Canada and Urs Uhlmann, CEO and country manager AXA XL, Canada...
Aug 13 2019 // Genworth Financial Inc. agreed to sell its Canadian unit to Brookfield Business Partners LP for C$2.4 billion ($1.8 billion) as it works to win regulatory approval for its acquisition by China Oceanwide Holdings Group...
Aug 13 2019 // Canadian lender Desjardins Group said on Monday it spent C$70 million ($53 million) in the second quarter related to a data privacy breach earlier this year that exposed personal information of 2.9 million members.The...
Aug 8 2019 // A coalition of 32 environmental and indigenous groups on Thursday urged insurers to stop underwriting the Trans Mountain pipeline to pressure Canada to cancel its plan to expand the project, which carries crude from...
Jul 29 2019 // Capital One Financial Corp. said on Monday personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained...
Jul 26 2019 // A Canadian children’s entertainment company is suing an Oklahoma medical cannabis dispensary chain accusing it of copyright infringement.The Tulsa World reports that Nelvana Enterprises Inc.’s suit filed in...
Jul 24 2019 // Navacord, the Ontario-based commercial broker, has joined global broking business Brokerslink as the network’s latest affiliate in the North American region.Navacord, which trades under 15 different broker partner...