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Improve Your Time Management Skills, Just in Time for the Busy Holiday Season
As the holidays approach our calendars start to fill up with additional events and activities on top of an already busy schedule. How do you fit it all in? Where do you find that balance?
As insurance professionals, managing your time is important. From responding to clients in a timely manner to arranging meetings, and balancing personal time, there is a distinct need in the industry for strong time management skills.
Quebec CSF Compliance Deadline is Nov. 30. Complete Your Hours Now With ILS
November 30 marks Chambre de la sécurité financière compliance deadline in Quebec.
The Chambre oversees the training and ethics of nearly 32,000 members who work in five sectors and registration category: group savings plan brokerage, financial planning, insurance of persons, group insurance of persons and scholarship plan brokerage. If this is you, ILS can help you complete your mandated compliance training hours.
Do Your Snowbird Clients Have Adequate Insurance Coverage? Experts Say, Probably Not
It’s that time of year again, when Canadian snowbirds head south, and should be thinking about what kind of medical coverage they’ll need in the United States. The problem, experts say, is many Canadians don’t want to consider the scary possibility that they may face a catastrophic medical emergency and need to be treated in a U.S. hospital.
New E&O Insurance Course Now Included with ILScorp’s Life / A&S Subscription
ILScorp has released an exclusive new E&O Insurance course. ILScorp Life A&S continuing education subscriber now have free access to “Introduction to Errors and Omissions Exposures Insurance.” This course is accredited for one continuing education hour in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Study Shows Newlyweds of All Ages Are Ignoring Insurance Needs
Today, Nov. 12, 2013, aka 11-12-13, is expected to be a popular day for weddings. And as thousands of couples say I do, or commit to do so over the next few months, a new study shows many of these couples are ignoring important discussions about insurance.
Changes Proposed for Alberta’s Auto Insurance Industry
Alberta’s provincial government is proposing changes to province’s auto insurance system, to better protect consumers from rising premiums, while still giving individual companies more opportunity to make their case for increased pricing.
“Albertans have told us they want increased oversight in their auto insurance rates and we’ve listened.”
Canadians Want to Learn More About Their Insurance During Financial Literacy Month
November is Financial Literacy Month in Canada, and Canadians are keen to learn more about how insurance affects their finances, according to a recent Pollara survey commissioned by Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC). Half of Canadians want to better understand home and car insurance and how it fits into their financial plans and almost 90% think children should learn about home and car insurance at school, according to the survey.
Young Drivers May See Insurance Rate Breaks in Ontario With New Program
Young Ontario drivers may soon benefit from a new program aimed at cutting vehicle insurance costs for this high risk group. Ontario parents and their teen drivers may soon have some relief for the high cost of car insurance, when a variation of a Quebec program by insurer Industrial Alliance comes to Ontario. While it won’t be run by Industrial Alliance, it will be loosely based on its Mobiliz program aimed at 16-to-24-year-old drivers.
Be a Cautious Commuter For the Next Few Weeks
Your commute home will be extra risky over the next two weeks, as drivers adjust to to the end of daylights savings time and changes in their sleeping patterns and driving conditions. The Insurance Corporation of BC historically sees a 16 per cent increase in the average number of crashes in B.C. during the late afternoon commute in the two weeks following the end of Daylight Savings Time, compared to the two weeks prior to the change.