Crawford Canada’s Bill Johnstone has been named senior vice president of Crawford & Company’s Global Technical Services (GTS) for the Americas, a newly created position designed to more effectively coordinate and grow this market-leading service, the Company announced
GTS is a major differentiator for Crawford worldwide in the high-end, complex loss adjusting market. With our strong [...]

This month, The Co-operators is beginning a new chapter in its history as the first two Co-operators representatives in the province of Quebec will open their doors. One office will open for business in Aylmer on June 9, with the second opening in Gatineau one week later, on June 15.
“This is a milestone in our [...]

State Farm is pleased to announce the appointment of Barbara Bellissimo as Chief Agent and Senior Vice President for State Farm in Canada. In her new role, she will be responsible for providing strategic leadership, and overseeing the sales and operations of State Farm in Canada.
Ms. Bellissimo joined State Farm in 1986 and has successfully [...]

Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance (MEM), Missouri’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, and Guidewire Software®, a leading global provider of solutions to property/casualty insurers, today announced that MEM has fully deployed Guidewire ClaimCenter® as its new claims management system. ClaimCenter is now in use by MEM’s 95-person claims handling team and has fully replaced the company’s internally [...]

Shawn Cooper, Managing Director and Country Manager at Russell Reynolds Associates, is pleased to announce that Tom Long and Brad Belanger have joined the firm as consultants in the Toronto office.
Tom Long joins the firm as a Managing Director and his practice will leverage his extensive experience in senior executive search, board search and executive [...]

Guidewire Software®, a leading global provider of solutions to property/casualty (general) insurers, announced that Zurich Insurance Company (Zurich Japan), the third largest foreign general insurer in Japan, has selected Guidewire ClaimCenter® as its new end-to-end claims management solution. ClaimCenter is currently being implemented to process Zurich Japan’s auto claims, with plans to extend it [...]

Chris Kiah, President & CEO, Christianne Dostie, Executive Vice President and Tim Currie, Assistant Vice President, of Markham-based Allstate Canada, joined Richard Cunningham, President & CEO, Markham Board of Trade, and Daniele Zanotti, President & CEO, United Way of York Region, for the official grand opening of a new Allstate Insurance Agency in Markham. Later [...]

Chris Kiah, President & CEO, Christianne Dostie, Executive Vice President and Tim Currie, Assistant Vice President, Allstate Canada, joined Sheldon Leiba, President & CEO, Mississauga Board of Trade, and Frank Dale, Councillor, City of Mississauga, for the official grand opening of a new Allstate Insurance Agency in Mississauga. Earlier today, the Allstate officials opened another [...]

Today, Chris Kiah, President & CEO, Christianne Dostie, Executive Vice President, and Tim Currie, Assistant Vice President, Allstate Canada, joined his worship, Mayor Ted Salci, Kim Craitor, MPP, Niagara Falls, and Joyce Morocco, Director of Sales for Niagara Falls Tourism and a local member of the Liberal Party of Canada for the official grand opening [...]

Christianne Dostie, Executive Vice President of Allstate Canada was on hand to celebrate the official grand opening of two more new Allstate Insurance Agencies in Calgary. Yesterday, Dostie was in Edmonton attending the opening of the first two Agencies in Alberta.
Last year, Allstate announced that it was going to enhance its agent distribution model in [...]