Insurance Articles and Information for Ontario Residents and Businesses.
Opening Your Workplace During COVID19: What Ontario Employers Need to Know from a Legal Perspective
Whether your workplace has been open throughout this pandemic, or if your business is just opening now, this is a webinar for you. https://youtu.be/esZDXdXe0-0 Key areas of focus include: Recent updates to provincial & federal guidelines and recommendations regarding reopening [...]
COVID-19 Workplace Cleaning Practices
Many of the workplaces that have been open throughout the pandemic have adapted to the new reality of a routinely sanitized environment. For other businesses opening or considering opening right now, the practice of increased routine cleaning of the entire workspace [...]
Solving Trucking Profitability Paradox – Webinar Record
How do you run a profitable trucking company? Nuclear verdicts, rising insurance rates, depressed used truck pricing, difficult macro and micro economics and countless other curve balls make it difficult to run profitably. However, this is where the doom and gloom ends [...]
Summer Pool Swimming Safety
For many children, playing in and around the pool is the most enjoyable part of summer but not every child is quite as strong a swimmer as Canadian Olympic Swimmer Amélie Kretz. Our current COVID-19 reality presents new and unique challenges for [...]
Managing Cyber Risk of Remote Work – Video
Emerging Cyber Risk Trends During Covid-19 Since January 2020, there has been a 30,000% increase in COVID-19 cyber-related phishing, malicious website and malware activity, targeting remote users (Zscaler Cloud Security). With the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses had to quickly adapt to a new [...]
Do-it-Yourself Home Flood Prevention
The uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic is at the forefront of concerns across Ontario and our country. With warmer temperatures coming (we hope) there is another seasonal risk to prepare for – spring flooding. Extreme weather events like torrential rain can [...]
Effective Cash Flow Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Video
Cash flow management is important for any business but it is a bigger focus during this COVID-19 pandemic The urgent focus for businesses now is understanding business risk and viability, protecting employees, and managing supply chain disruption. Responding to the immediate [...]
Federal COVID-19 Relief Programs: Clarity for Ontario Businesses – Video
Bringing relief program clarity to Ontario businesses. Navigating the numerous Federal COVID-19 Relief Programs being introduced by the Canadian Government can be challenging for any business leader. Understanding how one program works in conjunction with another, or which programs are suited for [...]
Phishing in COVID-19 waters
The COVID-19 outbreak continues to disrupt our lives. There are many experiencing a heightened sense of concern for their personal safety and the safety of their loved ones. Unfortunately, people hungry for information are also perfect targets for phishing scams. One [...]
Should I take one of my cars off the road to save on insurance?
We are in an unprecedented time in our modern era. There are fewer cars on the road across Ontario and our nation. As many individuals and families find themselves in uncertain economic situations, we are all looking at ways to save [...]
Do you have a vacant commercial property?
As we navigate the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping you informed is now more important than ever. We acknowledge the impact this crisis has had – and continues to have – and want to reassure you that we are [...]
Transport Canada Updates HOS Regulations for Essential Freight for COVID-19
Transport Canada has released guidance similar to what the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) did last week as relief to truck drivers during COVID-19. Drivers who move essential freight between our provinces will be exempt from hours-of-service (HOS) requirements. The primary difference between [...]