Longstanding Ontario brokerage Sutherland Insurance coverage has joined the Canadian Dealer Community (CBN) as its newest member, CBN introduced earlier this week.
“Becoming a member of CBN will present improved provider relationships, and industry-leading greatest practices, enabling us to higher serve our purchasers and broaden our attain,” Sutherland Insurance coverage president Zac Sutherland says in a Jan. 14 press release.
“By leveraging the community’s collaborative assets and operational assist, we intention to streamline workflows, win key accounts, and place ourselves as a stronger, extra progressive participant within the Ontario market and past,” Sutherland says. “Additional to that, the tech stack and information evaluation contributions we will share will solely make us all stronger.”
Guelph, Ont.-based Sutherland Insurance coverage has been a brokerage since 1870, offering auto, property, enterprise and life insurance coverage throughout Ontario. Particularly, it affords house, auto, collector automobile, rental, tenants, seasonal property, boat, journey, umbrella legal responsibility, cyber, CGL, D&O, E&O and fleet insurance coverage, amongst others.
CBN president Lorie Phair says the community of unbiased insurance coverage brokerages is worked up to welcome Sutherland Insurance coverage to its increasing CBN neighborhood. As a brand new community member, the brokerage continues to function independently and serve their local people however good points collective knowledge from the community.
CBN represents greater than 30 member companies, with $3.5 billion in property and casualty premiums, worker advantages, and life and monetary providers. The community has greater than 100 places of work throughout Canada, with greater than 4,000 workers.
Final April, CBN welcomed two members from Ontario: Sterling Insurance coverage Brokers and Waddell Insurance coverage.
Oakville, Ont.-based Sterling Insurance coverage affords private insurance coverage (together with house, auto, private umbrella, high-net-worth and leisure autos) and industrial insurance coverage (together with CGL, authorized expense, builder’s danger, D&O, E&O, and surety and bonds, amongst others).
“CBN serves as a multifaceted useful resource — a enterprise coach, an incubator, a tech hub, and knowledgeable community all rolled into one,” Sterling Insurance coverage’s chief working officer, Farah Hameed, said in April 2024.
Waddell Insurance coverage additionally joined CBN on the time. It affords private, industrial, and life and group insurance coverage, together with, amongst others, house, auto, jewelry/tremendous arts, yachts and watercraft, industrial auto, enterprise interruption, environmental, crime, transportation and insurance coverage for specialised industries.
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