CSIO Welcomes Usborne & Hibbert Mutual Fire Insurance Company

Toronto, ON (Feb. 27, 2016) – The Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO) is pleased to announce the addition of Usborne & Hibbert Mutual Fire Insurance Company to its membership. Usborne & Hibbert, founded in 1876, is also a member of the Canadian Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (CAMIC).

“We’re happy to join the many other CAMIC member companies in becoming members of CSIO,” says Shelagh Cleary, President & CEO of Usborne & Hibbert. “We appreciate the value of data standards in creating efficiencies for our brokers and customers and we look forward to leveraging CSIO member benefits to realize these efficiencies as much as possible.”

With membership, Usborne & Hibbert can implement CSIO data standards, industry forms, CSIOnet and Advisory Services, extending the reach of leading-edge technology solutions to its business partners and customers alike.

“It is exciting to enhance our growing CAMIC membership base with another mutual insurance company,” states Catherine Smola, President & CEO of CSIO. “Usborne & Hibbert’s commitment to workflow efficiency and cutting-edge technology benefits not only their own broker network, but the industry as a whole, supporting our mutual goal of improving the consumer’s ease of doing business within the broker distribution channel.”

For a full list of CAMIC CSIO members, visit www.csio.com/csio-csio-camic-members.

About Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO)

CSIO is Canada’s industry technology standardization association of property and casualty insurers, software providers and over 35,000 brokers. CSIO is committed to improving the consumer’s ease of doing business within the broker channel by overseeing the development, implementation and maintenance of technology standards and solutions such as eDocs, Telematics, eDelivery and eSignatures. In addition, CSIO operates CSIOnet, a secure, industry-owned platform for the efficient exchange of policy information for the broker channel. CSIO maintains offices in Toronto and Montreal. For more information, visit csio.com.

SOURCE: Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO)