Expert Advice
Combined with over 30 years of experience as an employee, manager, consultant and insurance brokerage owner, I am uniquely positioned to assist organizations face their many and varied challenges!
An Expert’s View into Insurance
Cyber Crime – How To Protect Yourself?
Hi again, it’s Heather Cournoyer – your commercial insurance advisor. Last week I shared some information about some of threats posed from cyber...
Cyber Crime – What is it?
Breaches, DDo’s, Phishing, Whaling, Malware, Porting, Trikbots, Ransomware and Zoombombing. What do these words have in common? Yes! These are all...
Good News
We are indeed in challenging times and if you spend a lot of time watching the news, it can get quite depressing. So I decided to see if I could...
FAQ’s On COVID19
These are challenging times for both individuals and business owners. Many of my business owners have been reaching out for information on how...
Having problem with your claim or a dispute with your insurer? Help is on the way.
In my last blog, we provided some great claims tips and promised that this time we would give you information on how a policy is set up and some of...
Claims – Tips for the Consumer
I’m Heather Cournoyer, your commercial insurance expert and I’m coming to you from “sunny” Alberta where the temperature here has risen to a balmy...
What If Insurance Didn’t Exist?
Long gone are the days when “barn raisings” were popular. For those of you who don’t know what barn raisings are check out the link at wikipedia. ...
New Year Thoughts
At this special time of year, I would like to say THANK YOU! I’m thankful and honored to have such amazing friends, trusted business associates and...
Have you had your annual insurance “Checkup” yet?
In May we talked about the “Hard Insurance Market” and we are certainly feeling it more and more. Affordability and availability in certain classes...
Death, Taxes & Insurance!
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: Insurance. We can’t do...
What do mean my liability insurance premium doubled?!?!
In my May article “What's going on with my Property insurance? Where's my quotation?” we talked about increased premiums and the number of insurers...
Things are Not Always as They Appear
I’ve proudly represented the insurance industry for 35 years. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t see anything negative about our industry....
What’s going on with my Property insurance? Where’s my quote?
The insurance industry is the only consumer product I can think of that has to price its product based on data from the past without having any idea...
“I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”
This is a quote from the movie Network a 1976 film about a TV Network and exploitation. And that’s exactly how I and many insurance industry...
THE “FLIPPERS” GUIDE TO INSURANCE…..10 Tips for your Flip!
No two insurance policies are exactly the same. When it comes to insurance on residential properties purchased with the intention of “flipping”,...
TOP 10 QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN BUYING INSURANCE ON RENTAL PROPERTY
No two insurance policies are exactly the same and when it comes to insurance on single or multi-family or commercial buildings for rental...
GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS INSURANCE BROKERAGE
After the story about Goldilocks and her trespassing in the Bears Den broke in the tabloids there was a storm of controversy. The Bears agreed not...
The Moral of the “Twix” Story
We have all seen the commercial about the Twix candy bar and the competition between Right Twix and Left Twix. Both factories are identical and...
So How Much is Enough?
Nobody wants to be over insured so the question to ask is how much is enough? This a question that a qualified insurance broker is well equipped to...
Contractual Liability – What do you mean it’s my fault?
Did you know that many contracts may contain clauses that transfer the responsibility for damage or loss back to you? Do you rent equipment to use...
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