21/10/2013
Welcome to this special edition of The Wire, specifically for insurance brokers based in Canada. ITIC produces several Wires (ITIC’s e-newsletter) in a year, which are focused on a particular area of cover, activity, or geographic region.
This article is part of The Wire: Focus on Canada, which was released in October 2013.
28/02/2014
The Swedish Hydrographic Office produced a navigation chart with an incorrectly marked rock. A Russian tanker struck the rock and filed a claim against the organisation. The Swedish Supreme Court held that the Hydrographic Office...
20/10/2013
A major survey company was contracted to survey the seabed for the routing of a power cable. This cable was used to connect to an offshore wind farm to the power grid via a substation ashore. Unfortunately, the routing was not...
A designer of light aircraft was asked by an aircraft builder to design a single turbo prop aircraft, which was to be used for an air ambulance service between small islands off a coastal area. The aircraft was designed and then built by aircraft manufacturers.
Underwriters instructed an aviation loss adjuster to investigate and handle a claim arising from the loss to an aircraft. After investigations, the loss adjuster concluded that the loss had been caused by mechanical engine failure.