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    Demographic report reveals big challenges
        The p&c industry is facing an uphill battle to attract enough workers to replace outgoing personnel, a report on demographics released last week by The Insurance Institute shows.
        “Compared to the overall labour force and to the minimal standard that there should be one entering the work force for every worker who can retire, the industry’s entry to exit ratios are very low,” the researchers say.
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    Follow-up: Verbal threshold has to go, bar association says
        Working groups at the Ontario Bar Association’s auto insurance summit (Thompson’s, May 5) were “virtually unanimous” that the verbal threshold has got to go, said Richard Halpern.
        The Bar Association president said a monetary threshold was suggested to replace it.
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    B.C., Alberta update Insurance Acts in tandem
        The B.C. and Alberta finance ministries have unveiled updated Insurance Acts in tandem — underlining the provinces’ commitment to harmonization in commercial law.
        A statement from B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor said the laws were reworked “in the spirit of the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement,” the provincial free trade pact between the two provinces that came into effect a year ago.
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