INSURANCE INDUSTRY NEWS

Aviva Canada Selects Mitchell Solutions To Help Streamline Claims Management
Mitchell, an Enlyte company and leading technology and information provider for the Property & Casualty claims and Collision Repair industries, is pleased to announce that Aviva Canada has implemented its full suite of enterprise claims management solutions. Read more.

Messagepoint Expands Digital Channel Options For Personalized Customer Communications
Messagepoint is pleased to announce the availability of new integrations to provide customers with new options for sending notifications and personalized customer communications leveraging digital channels, including WhatsApp, SMS, chat, email and personalized video. Read more.

PorchPals Selects Sure To Launch First-of-its-Kind Subscription Package Theft Insurance
Sure, the global insurance technology leader, is pleased to announce a new partnership with PorchPals, a new platform that provides affordable porch piracy package insurance for deliveries to your door. PorchCare, PorchPal's new subscription package theft insurance built on Sure's embedded insurance infrastructure, is debuting in California with plans to expand in 2023. Read more.

Beazley, Assureful Launch Usage-Based Liability Insurance For e-Commerce Businesses
Specialist insurer Beazley has partnered with Assureful to offer the industry's first, usage-based liability insurance solution for e-commerce companies. Assureful, which worked with Beazley's Incubation Underwriting team to create this new insurance solution has also been appointed a Lloyd's Coverholder. The solution is initially available nationally in the United States. Read more.

StoneRidge Insurance Brokers Expands Presence in Ontario With Safeway Acquisition
SIB Corp., operating as StoneRidge Insurance Brokers (SIB), a leading independent provider of insurance and consulting services, has acquired Safeway Insurance and Financial Services Inc., expanding its personal and commercial insurance presence in the Greater Toronto Area. Read more.

First Onsite Expands In Atlantic Canada
First Onsite Property Restoration, Canada's leading independent disaster restoration services provider, is pleased to announce it has opened a new branch in Saint John, New Brunswick. Read more.

SERVPRO Canada Adds New Hamilton Office
SERVPRO®, a premier cleanup and restoration company, is pleased to announce it has a new franchise in Southern Ontario. SERVPRO® of Hamilton Mohawk will respond to the community's property damage emergencies, ranging from multi-million-dollar commercial disasters to small losses suffered by individual businesses and homeowners. Read more.

A Guide to 300 InsurTech Startups
InsurTech startups continue to advance the use of technology solutions for key carrier use cases, such as underwriting, claims, customer service, and risk management. Many InsurTech firms are combining their technical expertise with a better understanding of insurance to develop pointed solutions to address carrier problems and pain points. Insuretech firms are increasingly bringing “insure” and “tech” to the table rather than just technical expertise, boosting the value of their solutions. Read more.

Apollo Launches Rented Condo & Townhouse Insurance
Apollo Insurance, Canada's leading InsurTech, is pleased to announce the launch of a new fully digital Rented Condo and Townhouse Insurance product. This policy helps individuals who rent out their owned units in Canada by protecting one of their most valuable assets against the unexpected. Read more.

New Online Home For SGI Salvage Vehicle Sales
SGI is pleased to announce it is moving its salvage vehicle sales to a new website that will offer a more accessible, quality and consistent auction process. The new live auction platform, hosted by IAA (formerly Impact Auto Auctions), which has extensive experience in salvage vehicle auctions, will introduce efficiencies for SGI while improving customer experience. Read more.

Parents-To-Be Receive Additional Support Through Group Benefits
From adoption to IVF (in vitro fertilization), building a family looks different for everyone. It can often be a challenging and expensive process for many Canadians. To help, Sun Life offers a range of optional Family Building benefits to Group Benefits clients, including coverage related to fertility, surrogacy and adoption. Read more.

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In the InsurTech Spotlight this week:

Skopenow
Using social media and open source data, Skopenow mitigates fraud and risk for claims and underwriting teams. Skopenow provides a hands-off, 'cradle to grave' approach to fighting claims fraud using instant behavioral and relationship analytics. Learn more.

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Featured job opportunities:

Claims Adjuster (Commercial Lines)
HSB Canada
Toronto, ON

Bilingual Insurance Specialist
Pet Valu Canada Inc.
Ontario (hybrid work-from-home model)

From Doug First and foremost, government is “for the people.” By that logic, life should be better for people in a collective sense at the end of a term than at the beginning. Assessing the state is of course fraught with pitfalls, but our world of data should help. Lately, the political scene has been moving further away from its fundamental principle toward winning and party politics. Leadership in some provinces, for example, has undertaken actions which seem to fly in the face of solving some of our major societal problems. I would be more inclined to buy in if these announcements communicated how the results will impact major issues such as healthcare, the cost of living, climate change, etc., and could make a better case (based in science and empirical data) for their benefits. I was delighted to see the announcement of Canada's National Adaptation Strategy on Climate. I hope there is action, and that it will grow. With so much invested by the insurance industry over many years, one can hear the cries of dismay, should a new political leader revoke the strategy down the road. We all need to contribute; what have you invested? Doug Grant, CIP Partner Insurance-Canada.ca