OTC Insurance, an insurance broker providing auto insurance in Nova Scotia, talks about some recent recommendations made in New Brunswick to establish a public auto insurance system there With the provincial budget in the red, the New Brunswick Union of Public and Private employees recently put out some suggestions for how the province could improve [...]

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker in Nova Scotia, talks about how social media is helping to identify fraudulent claims Social media has had a profound effect on people’s lives. One way it is affecting the world of insurance has to do with claims, more specifically, fraudulent claims. There have been numerous instances where people have been [...]

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker located in Halifax provides a run down of some of the top five frauds reported by Manitoba Public Insurance. Every year, Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI), the non-profit crown corporation which provides basic auto insurance in Manitoba, releases a list of the top five frauds of the year. Here’s a look [...]

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, discusses data which looks at the top 10 most stolen vehicles in Atlantic Canada In our last post, we looked at an annual list put out by the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) which looks at the top 10 most stolen vehicles in Canada. Because of the way [...]

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker located in the Halifax area and providing coverage across Nova Scotia, talks about recent vehicle theft data.   It’s a list you don’t want to find your vehicle on. Every year, the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) releases a list of the top 10 most stolen vehicles in Canada. Because the results are not broken [...]

OTC Insurance, your insurance broker for Halifax and Nova Scotia explains how new research has found that hybrid vehicles are safer than non-hybrid ones According to new research by the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), the odds of being injured in a car crash in a hybrid are 25 per cent less than getting into a [...]

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker offering auto insurance for people in Halifax and across Nova Scotia talks about the fascinating stats released by Aviva Canada With the first snowfall of the year having hit Halifax and Nova Scotia earlier this week, the topic of winter car accidents was something frequently discussed by the media. Coincidentally, [...]

OTC Insurance tells you how new legislation by the province of Nova Scotia is hoping to deter the theft of copper and what this means for commercial and homeowner policyholders Last week, the province of Nova Scotia introduced legislation that didn’t receive a lot of attention in the news. The legislation is designed to deter criminals [...]

OTC Insurance, an auto insurance broker located in the Halifax and Dartmouth area tells you about some of the changes to the Nova Scotia auto insurance system and what it will mean for drivers.  Change is coming to the Nova Scotia auto insurance system as the result of recommendations that came from an independent auto insurance review conducted by [...]

Almost six months ago, the Town of Slave Lake was hit by a massive wildfire that evacuated 7,000 residents and eventually destroyed roughly 400 structures. The fire struck a 4,700-hectare area. The wildfire was the second most costly from an insurance standpoint in Canadian history. The damage has been pegged at $700 million, which is [...]