Toronto, ON (Mar. 13, 2025) \u2013 A new partnership between The Insurance Institute of Canada and the Canadian Independent Adjusters\u2019 Association will accelerate some Level 1 licensing courses to support the quicker onboarding of adjusters.<\/p>\n
The Institute\u2019s Accelerated Competence Series is designed to support new adjusters in reaching their Level 1 licenses by offering the C11: Principles and Practice of Insurance<\/em> course in an accelerated format.<\/p>\n The partnership will also support the onboarding of new adjusters to CIAA.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will help prepare for the current state of high demand in adjusters, as Canadian insurers continue to grapple with the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events in Canada. It also provides readiness should interprovincial trade barriers soon be removed in facilitation of needed mobility of adjusters within Canada,\u201d IIC\u2019s president and CEO Peter Hohman says in a release.<\/p>\n \u201cThe partnership with CIAA is an extension of the IIC\u2019s talent gap initiatives, prioritized to assist P&C employers to meet workforce growth and demand for qualified resources\u2026\u201d Hohman said.<\/p>\n The industry handled $8.5 billion in insured damages in 2024, making it the largest loss year in Canadian history. Laura Twidle, CEO of Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc., has told Canadian Underwriter<\/em> that the figure has since risen to $8.9 billion.<\/p>\n Canadian claims professionals adjusted more than 273,000 claims in 2024, far above the previous record of 197,000 in 2016.<\/p>\n Alongside a sharp rise in demand for adjusters, several industry research findings support that adjuster supply is dwindling, leading to a widening talent gap in the industry.<\/p>\n Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators ranked 12th for the fastest-declining jobs by 2030, and 15th for the largest decline in absolute numbers within the same period, according to the World Economic Forum\u2019s The Future of Jobs Report 2025. That means far more claims roles will be displaced than created, CU <\/i>previously reported.<\/p>\n The Institute\u2019s own Demographic Research finds claims professionals will make up an 8.5% share of total industry retirements in the next five years.<\/p>\n That means approximately 1,830 claims professionals are forecast to retire nationally between 2023 and 2026. According to IIC, claims employees in commercial lines indicated a higher retirement rate than those in personal lines.<\/p>\n \u201cCIAA is committed to fostering the professional development of the adjusters who make up our membership for the benefit of the P&C industry. I look forward to the advantages this collaboration brings our industry to advance the profession collectively,\u201d says Michael Connolly, CIAA\u2019s president and ClaimsPro\u2019s Atlantic Canada vice president.<\/p>\n The purpose of the Canadian Independent Adjusters\u2019 Association is to promote and represent the common business interests of licensed insurance adjusters within the insurance industry in Canada. For more information, visit www.ciaa-adjusters.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Insurance Institute is the premier source of professional education and career development for the country\u2019s property and casualty insurance industry. Established in 1899, the Institute is a not-for-profit organization serving more than 40,000+ members across Canada through 19 volunteer-driven provincial Institutes and chapters.<\/p>\n The Institute sets professional standards for the industry through education programs that lead to a range of designations and certificates, including the internationally recognized Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) and Fellow Chartered Insurance Professional (FCIP). The 18,000+ graduates of these programs continue to enhance their expertise, experience and professional relationships by participating in the Institute-sponsored CIP Society.<\/p>\n The Insurance Institute also conducts and delivers reports on industry concerns about human capital issues such as recruitment, retention, succession planning, education, training and demographic research, which can be found on the website under Insights & Research. For more information, visit insuranceinstitute.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Insurance Institute of Canada (IIC)<\/i><\/p>\n Tags: Canadian Independent Adjusters Association (CIAA)<\/a>, Insurance Institute of Canada<\/a>, partnership<\/a>, training<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Toronto, ON (Mar. 13, 2025) \u2013 A new partnership between The Insurance Institute of Canada and the Canadian Independent Adjusters\u2019 Association will accelerate some Level 1 licensing courses to support the quicker onboarding of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the Canadian Independent Adjusters\u2019 Association<\/b><\/h4>\n
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