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Effective Monday April 29, 2013 our location at 121 S. May st. has moved to our head office at 14 N. Cumberland st.  Please call 807-345-3611 between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm Monday to Friday.

Thunder Bay Insurance is proud to introduce two new service team members to our organization!   Jolene Desbiens Account Manager 807-346-3642 Email: jdesbiens@tbayins.ca   Luc Romaniuk Account Manager 807-346-3645 Email: luc.romaniuk@tbayins.ca   We want to welcome Jolene and Luc to our Personal Lines Division!

Excellent tip found and worth passing on! If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies… [...]

Tom Gilham has joined our Commercial Insurance Team as a Licensed Broker.  Tom recently returned to Thunder Bay after spending 5 years in Calgary working as a Group Benefits Account Executive with Alberta Blue Cross.  Tom attended Port Arthur Collegiate and graduated Humber College as a CPGA Golf Professional and Instructor.  An avid fisherman and [...]

 John Henderson has joined our team as Marketing Director and Licensed Broker. John has been involved with the company for over ten years guiding our marketing through his Advertising Agency. It was John who called us the “little company that grew”. In his new role he will be responsible for marketing in the nine communities [...]

An interesting article was sent our way in the form of the March 2011 St. John Ambulance Newsletter.  It discusses the surprisingly dramatic impacts our bodies face when we lose an average of 40 minutes of sleep with the spring  time change.  After discussing impacts, the article highlights some things you can do minimize the effects [...]

How’s this for something amazing: In a study published by the Journal Science, it is estimated that the amount of data stored in digital form is calculated at 295 exabytes!  That is a colossal amount of information. How much is 295 exabytes?  Well, traditionally computer storage has been measured in bytes.  You have (in order [...]

As an Insurance Advisor I have to ask a lot of questions to get all the information required to properly insure a client.  When discussing homeowners insurance with clients, and especially first-time homebuyers, the majority of the people I talk to have the same the question when we discuss coverage: “Why in the world is the [...]

Being a twenty something employee in an industry renowned for Baby Boomers, I found this article extremely pertinent to my situation.  Gen X’s perception of twenty somethings can sometimes be skewed when it comes to determining motivation. This is not their fault; we’ve been brought up in different generations with dissimilar ideals and moulded by [...]

Picture the scene… You’ve just finished an important e-mail.  You took your time writing it and double, no, triple checked the spelling.  Everything looks good, now to add the vital attachment and away it goes! A few minutes later you hear a ding, or a “you got mail,” only to find out that your message [...]

Thunder Bay Insurance is honoured to have been presented with the 2010 Brokerage Award of Excellence during the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario’s (IBOA) 90th Annual Convention held in Niagara Falls. This award recognizes us as the Brokerage of the Year across the entire IBAO membership which includes over 11,500 brokers province-wide. TBI was selected [...]

1. Seek the Advice of a Professional Risk ManagerThe first and easiest way to start implementing risk management in your company is to seek the professional advice and guidance of a professional risk manager.  Not only are they trained in the techniques for risk analysis, control, and finance, they also have access to a wealth [...]

The rules of the game have changed: effective risk management, rather than the commodity-driven “insure and pray” method (you insure your business and pray nothing goes wrong), is the separating line between successful businesses and non-successful ones.  Unfortunately, I meet business owners every day who feel that the size of their business is too small, [...]

I recently came across David Spratley’s article analyzing the similarities and differences between Canadian and U.S. trade-marks.  Whatever your business, protecting your intellectual capital is paramount, and you should know where and how to do so. Canada and the United States have similar systems for registering and protecting trade-marks, and franchisors need to be aware [...]

Too often insurance brokers are faced with resistance when we try to recommend enhanced coverage.  Take the liability limits on your home or auto policy for example; if you’re like most Ontarians, you likely have a limit of $1,000,000.  It seems like a lot, and it is…or at least it is as long as we’re [...]

In the spirit of Waste Reduction Week 2010 (October 18-24), I was doing some “green” reading and came across an interesting project that I thought I would share: “The Story of Stuff” project by Annie Leonard.  What’s great about the “Story of Stuff” website: www.storyofstuff.com, is that there are both interactive videos and written articles [...]

These days you are 10 times more likely to have your identity stolen than your vehicle. This is just one reason why it’s important to understand what identity theft is and how you can prevent it. According to Michael Arata, in his book “Preventing Identity Theft for Dummies”, identity theft is when an individual uses [...]

Lately, the news has been buzzing about increases to insurance rates and decreases to coverage.  So how does an insurance consumer protect themselves and get the “best deal” when shopping for insurance?  Conventional wisdom suggests that we should “shop around” every few years to make sure that our current company isn’t trying to gauge us, [...]

“Can I get my files back?” she asks as I return her flash drive. “No I’m sorry, the flash drive is corrupted and the only thing I can do is reformat it.  Even then I can’t guarantee that your flash will work” I reply.  I wince as I see her face contort into what I’m [...]

Our South Branch, located at 121 S. May Street office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm (closed for lunch 12:30pm-1:30pm) In the event of an after-hours emergency claim, please call 345-3616 or 1-866-725-5060