Client Management as a Risk Management Strategy
Seven client-focused things architects can do to reduce liability claims.
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Pro-Demnity insures the Architect’s Professionalism – not Products, Processes or Materials
We frequently get questions about whether Pro-Demnity insures a certain method of design, or a certain material, or a process, etc. We have even been asked if we insure walls. […]
Claims and Architect expertise expands at Pro-Demnity. Architects poised to benefit.
Pro-Demnity is enhancing claims expertise and expanding access to architects.
Every Practice Needs a Lawyer
The Straight Line Newsletter — Issue #18 IN THIS ISSUE Lawyers Available to Assist Architects One very good way of managing risk is to establish a business relationship with a […]
Working together to keep water in its place
This is an abbreviated version of an article that was published in the Fall 2018 edition of Pushing the Envelope Canada, which is printed twice per year by Matrix Group […]
Failure to Communicate
Episode 2 of Architects’ Claims Stories shares how a simple exchange of information, promptly delivered, duly recorded and correctly remembered, might have saved everyone a lot of grief.
Pro-Demnity Sponsors the 2022 Canadian Conference of Building Science and Technology
Proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the 2022 Canadian Conference of Building Science and Technology.
Foreign Jurisdictions and Architects’ Liability
When the World is not Enough Almost every liability (professional or otherwise) insurance policy has a territorial or jurisdictional limit, often referred to in terms such as “Your Policy Territory”. […]
2022 Annual Update
From our early beginnings as an indemnity plan in 1987, Pro-Demnity was designed to be the architects’ trusted, protective, professional ally, providing Ontario’s architectural practices with professional liability insurance solutions and risk management services.
We enable the architectural profession to improve society and human interaction through better design, by supporting the wise, effective, and efficient management of risk.
Read our 2022 Annual Update and learn how we are protective by design.
NEW: Cyber limited Exclusion and Data Exclusion Endorsement
Effective April 1, 2022 upon renewal, the Cyber Limited Exclusion and Data Exclusion Endorsement is added to professional liability policies.
Architects’ Claims Stories: Real and Unreal
Every insurance claim tells a story of human behaviour. There’s the factual side: what happened and why? And there’s the outcome: the physical, economic, emotional, social, relationship or professional consequences. […]
No Written Record
This pilot episode of Architects’ Claims Stories deals with the consequences of an architect failing to keep written records.