Industry
This month, insurer General Accident will officially change its name to CGU Group Ltd. The Canadian operation will operate as CGU Insurance Company of Canada. According to head of corporate communications Diane Scott, the change harmonizes the Canadian name with the company’s worldwide brand, which has been operating under the CGU Group title since General […]
March 31, 1999
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TSE-listed Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (KFS) disclosed an 18% rise in earnings to 86c a share for the 1998 financial year ended December compared with that of the previous year. The return on equity for the year clocked in at 13.4%. Net income for the year rose by 40% to $31 million compared with $22 […]
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Equisure Financial Network Inc. (TSE: EFN) has entered into an agreement to acquire Sudbury-based Dinan Insurance Brokers and Financial Services Ltd., a multi-line general insurance and financial service brokerage. The undisclosed purchase price will be paid partly in cash and partly in Equisure shares. Equisure is acquiring a well known regional broker in Dinan. It […]
TSE-listed Queensway Financial Holdings (QFH) posted a 59% drop in earnings a share to 52c for the financial year ended December 1998 compared with the previous year. The company’s directors attribute the earnings decline primarily as a result of a once-off cost associated with a claims under-reserve of $13 million disclosed at Paradigm Insurance Co., […]
St. Paul Companies, an insurance and reinsurance group and the parent of St. Paul Canada — has released its yearend 1998 figures posting a dramatic decrease in earnings over 1997. Net income plummeted from 1997’s US$929 million to $89.3 million in 1998. While decreased revenues account for much of the decline from the company’s record […]
January ice storm losses, rate cutting and poor investment returns are the major culprits pointing to a 42% drop in property and casualty insurers’ earnings to $1.137 billion for 1998 compared with 1997’s earnings of $1.960 billion, says Paul Kovacs, chief economist of the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) at the recently held Annual Swiss […]
Global reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings Inc. has reported record net income earnings for 1998, up 33.4% from 1997’s US$185.5 million to 1998’s $247.5 million. Net income diluted on a common share basis rose $1.76 from 1997’s $5.34 to 1998’s $7.10. Record profits aside, Transatlantic also saw a steady increase in marketshare posting an increase of 7.7% […]
The City of Toronto’s new mandatory mediation program could result in quicker and more efficient resolutions of insurance lawsuits, lawyer Paul Iacano told a packed conference room at a seminar at the recently held Claims ’99 Ontario Insurance Adjusters Association conference. Iacano’s co-speaker, lawyer James Howie, disagreed, contending the jury is still out on the […]
By Lowell Conn | March 31, 1999
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Dominion of Canada General Insurance has joined the growing rank of insurance companies offering broker call centre services. In the spring of this year Dominion will launch Chieftain Insurance in the Alberta and Ontario personal lines markets. Dominion president George Cooke says Chieftain will initially offer a personal auto and property product sold through an […]
February 28, 1999
The ramifications of the millennium bug are already hitting insurers, says Crawford Adjusters Canada vice president Glenn Gibson, who recently addressed a capacity crowd at the SCOR Canada/Lang Michener Claims Symposium in Toronto. Already in the U.S. – where the bulk of Y2K litigation is currently taking place — over 200 lawsuits have been settled […]
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