OTC Insurance, a home insurance broker located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, talks about an interesting idea put forth regarding homeowners’ oil tanks. Sorry about the dramatic headline, but it seemed rather appropriate for this week’s post. The annual general meeting of the Insurance Brokers Association of B.C. was on May 9 and the president of [...]

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, talks about how technology will be used to improve risk and damage assessment in the insurance industry. On the OTC Insurance blog, we’ve talked frequently about the effects severe weather occurrences are having on the insurance market. It seems like every week, a new report or [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

OTC Insurance, an insurance broker located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which provides home and tenant insurance talks about some unusual home security tips. Recently, I received an email titled “13 things your burglar won’t tell you.” It was a forwarded email that gets passed around from friend to friend, colleague to colleague, etc. The source appears [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]