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, [...]

Although it’s still September, it might seem depressing to start talking about winter right now, but it is just around the corner. For vehicle owners, this means it will be necessary to get ready for winter. Today, we’re going to take a look at emergency car kits and in the coming weeks, we’ll also look [...]

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 [...]

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  

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 [...]

With summer now upon us, it means many people will be spending more time outdoors, on vacation and at the beach, so it’s important people take steps to prevent themselves from becoming victims of crime. The Halifax Regional Police (HRP) recently posted some excellent tips on this topic. In today’s world of social media, one [...]

The Canadian Council of Insurance Regulators (CCIR), an inter-jurisdictional forum of provincial, territorial and national insurance regulators has been looking at the use of credit-based insurance scores. A credit-based insurance score is different from your traditional (financial) credit score. Both are derived using the information found in a credit report, but they have different mathematical [...]

They may be man’s best friend, but they can also bite. And they bite more often than one might think. Every year in Canada and the United States, five million people are bitten or attacked by dogs, says insurer State Farm. In 2010, the company paid out more than $90 million to deal with almost [...]

Auto theft is up in Halifax this year. It’s something we’ve noticed at the OTC office and it’s backed up by police statistics. For the month of May, two cases of stolen vehicles were reported to our office. In one case, the vehicle was returned to a rental lot in Burnside and in the other case, [...]

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 [...]