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Five urgent problems for P&C insurers

By Aurélia Morvan | Sept. 30, 2019, 2:31 p.m.

Don Forgeron at NICC

Photo: Mark Cooper

Don Forgeron, President and CEO of the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), warns the insurance industry that it will be facing five “urgent problems” by late 2020.

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