The Wire - Issue 15, October 2013 - Focus on Canadian Insurance Brokers

Welcome to this special edition of The Wire, specifically for insurance brokers based in Canada. ITIC produces several Wires (ITIC’s e-newsletter) in a year, which are focused on a particular area of cover, activity, or geographic region.

This article is part of The Wire: Focus on Canada, which was released in October 2013. 

This article is part of The Wire: Focus on Canada, which was released in October 2013. 

The Swedish Hydrographic Office produced a navigation chart with an incorrectly marked rock. A Russian tanker struck the rock and filed a claim against the organisation. The Swedish Supreme Court held that the Hydrographic Office...

A major survey company was contracted to survey the seabed for the routing of a power cable. This cable was used to connect to an offshore wind farm to the power grid via a substation ashore. Unfortunately, the routing was not...

This article is part of The Wire: Focus on Canada, which was released in October 2013. 

A designer of light aircraft was asked by an aircraft builder to design a single turbo prop aircraft, which was to be used for an air ambulance service between small islands off a coastal area. The aircraft was designed and then built by aircraft manufacturers. 

Underwriters instructed an aviation loss adjuster to investigate  and handle a claim arising from the loss to an aircraft. After  investigations, the loss adjuster concluded that the loss had  been caused by mechanical engine failure.