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Home insurance and Cheech & Chong

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on May 15, 2012 – 8:15 pm

OTC Insurance, a Nova Scotia home, auto, marine and commercial insurance broker talks about a drug-related insurance lawsuit It’s a story that could almost be included as a plot in a Cheech & Chong movie. At the very least, it’s one of those crazy insurance claim stories. An insurance company, Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance of Columbus, Ohio, [...]



2012 Atlantic hurricane season predictions now out

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on April 18, 2012 – 6:20 pm

OTC Insurance, a Nova Scotia insurance broker providing home, auto and commercial insurance, talks about recent predictions for the upcoming 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Picking up on our last post where we talked about preparing for severe weather occurrences, the timing couldn’t be better for some predictions that recently came out. The Tropical Metorological Project [...]



Preparing for severe weather occurrences

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on April 11, 2012 – 7:25 pm

OTC Insurance, a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia-based insurance broker who provides home, auto and commercial insurance to its clients in Halifax, Dartmouth and across Nova Scotia talks about preparing for severe weather occurrences. As part of its efforts to highlight the fact Earth Month is taking in April, the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is drawing attention [...]



Insurance implications of floods in Thailand

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on March 13, 2012 – 6:43 pm

OTC Insurance, a commercial insurance broker in Nova Scotia talks about some of the insurance issues the 2011 floods in Thailand will present In today’s global economy, outsourced manufacturing is a big part of that. Countries like China and Thailand are both well known for the outsourced manufacturing that takes place inside those countries. In [...]



A costly year for insurance losses

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on February 14, 2012 – 6:41 pm

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker offering personal, commercial and life/group insurance in Halifax, Nova Scotia, shares some insurance data According to an article on the website of Canadian Insurance Top Broker, the year 2011 was shaping up to be the second costliest year for the insurance industry on record. Using preliminary estimates from Swiss Re, [...]



Copper theft and what it means to you

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on November 17, 2011 – 3:40 pm

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 [...]



The insurance side of the concert biz

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on October 25, 2011 – 7:50 pm

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 [...]



Bits and bobs

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on July 5, 2011 – 2:53 pm

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 [...]



Margaret South Picks Up Her Keys.

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on June 30, 2011 – 1:17 pm

We went along to witness the hand over.  Congratulations Meg! Watch the video here of Meg driving off into the sunset.  Well actually The back of Tim Hortons on Quinpool in Halifax. http://www.youtube.com/user/otcinsurance  



OTC Insurance Client Wins Competition

Icon Written by Jack Churchill on June 29, 2011 – 5:15 pm

Not just any competition.  It was the Tim Hortons ‘Roll Back The Rim To WIn’. We visited Margaret at the Tim Hortons on Quinpool in Halifax to find out a bit more about the moment that she discovered her win and what she is going to do with her prize. Below is the link to [...]