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22 October 2026 · 5 min read
Making third-party risk part of Insurers’ strategic decisions
Picture a severe storm sweeping across a province. Claims volumes climb within hours. The outsourced claims administrator cannot reach its operating location. Its technology provider then suffers an outage, and the claims records become unavailable. Each of these risks sits in a register somewhere. On the day of the storm they converge on a single service. Paying customers when they need help most.
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13 October 2026 · 4 min read
Does Your Cyber Insurance Cover a Supplier Incident?
Your outsourced service provider suffers a cyberattack on a Monday morning. Your systems stop working and customers cannot reach your services. By lunchtime, revenue is slipping. You open your cyber insurance policy and find the words “third-party liability cover”. It is natural to assume your losses are covered. The wording alone does not confirm that.
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2 October 2026 · 8 min read
What if your suppliers won't answer your risk assessments?
Imagine you have sent a security questionnaire to a supplier that handles part of your customer service. You have followed up twice and explained why the answers matter. Months later, the responses are still incomplete, or the supplier has politely declined to take part. Your business still relies on that supplier every day, and you have to decide what to do next.
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