OTC commercial insurance brokers for Halifax and Dartmouth bring you the latest story from the CIP Society. The president of the New Brunswick Apartment Owners Association (NBAOA) and Moncton’s fire chief are calling for people who live in multi-unit buildings to get tenants’ insurance after a fire destroyed a 16-unit building in Moncton on Oct. 23, [...]

OTC commercial insurance brokers for Halifax and Dartmouth bring you an article on Insurance and the concert business. With the Halifax Pop Explosion having just wrapped up, we decided we’d take a look at another side of the music business that doesn’t get much attention: the insurance side. While fans show up and watch the concert, most [...]

We know travel Insurance is important and with with the last flight mission of the Space Shuttle underway we searched the internet and found that and found this really cool info graphic.          

After heavy rains in the Ottawa-Gatineau area, the Insurance Bureau of Canada has advised people affected by the rainfall to check their policies to see if they are covered for the property damage caused by sewer backup and water seepage. Between June 23 and 24, 50 mm of rainfall was recorded over Gatineau, while Ottawa [...]

While it’s already been a wet spring in Nova Scotia, researchers are predicting that it’s going to be an “above normal” hurricane season for the Atlantic basin. For the six-month season beginning June 1, the U.S.-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting there will be: “12 to 18 named storms (winds of 39 [...]

The Nova Scotia government announced a new disaster financial assistance program today to cover uninsured storm damage that was caused between Dec. 12 and Dec. 15, 2010. The program is being cost-shared between the federal government ($1 million) and the province ($2 million) for a total of $3 million. According to a news release from [...]

Builders risk insurance is a type of policy that protects contractors from risks they may be liable for during a project, including fire, wind damage and vandalism. These policies cover buildings or major site renovations during the construction phase, whereas standard commercial insurance policies are designed to insure a completed building and its contents.  Here [...]