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Suspicious Fire Alerts and Preventative Measures for Home Builders
Insurance companies are warning of suspicious fires in new build housing developments in Ontario. They have seen a noticeable increase in fires affecting home builders and home buyers,...
Claim Incident Response Forms – What You Need to Know
As the season shifts to winter, there is a return of possible dangerous walking conditions, which increases the potential for slips, falls, and other similar incidents and injuries. Keep...
How to Prepare for a Cyberattack
Cyberattacks have become a regular occurrence and businesses of all sizes are being targeted. Regardless of industry, organizations have the potential of becoming the next victim of...
Building Maintenance for the Fall Season
As the leaves change colour and a crispness fills the air, we share an important aspect to assist your business as temperatures begin to drop: Building Maintenance. Proper building...
Protect Your Property: High Winds
This article is Part Two of our New Blog Series on protecting your property from natural threats. Be sure to check back to the Staebler Blog for future articles to help protect your home....
Small Business Insurance Discount for CFIB Members
Small business owners have countless challenges and constantly shifting priorities. Owners often elect to use an insurance broker to take one critical task off their plate. As an...
How Businesses Can Help Prevent the Next Cyber Attack in 2023
Regardless of the size of an organization, businesses need to be aware of cyber threats - and employees are often at the front line of a potential attack. It is understandable that small...
How Telematics Help the Trucking Industry
Telematics for today’s fleets typically involves the use of technologies like GPS, sensors, and wireless communication networks to collect and transmit data about the vehicles being...
What Changes Do I Need to Tell My Insurance Broker? Part 2
In a recent blog, we discussed some of the most important changes that impact your personal insurance. This included things like home renovations and driving for a delivery service, among...
What is ChatGPT and How To Use It
ChatGPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) is a computer program designed to chat with people in a natural language. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to...
Security for Your Home & Business this Holiday Season
With the holiday season upon us, our focus shifts to decorating, shopping, festivities, baking, and possibly travel. To help keep the holidays cheerful and safe, we bring you some...
How to Make Your Business Cyber Insurance Ready
If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably heard quite a bit lately about cyber insurance. Not only are you hearing about the usual stats about cyber attack this and cyber breach that, but now the difficulty in even being able to get cyber insurance coverage for your business.
Do I Need Small Business Insurance?
Heading down the entrepreneurial path and opening a business can be a rewarding experience. Of course, there are challenges along the way, from staffing to supply chains to marketing and...
Business Interruption Insurance Claims can be Affected by Supply Chain Challenges
In a previous blog, we discussed how insured property values may need to be increased because of a number of inflationary factors affecting restoration costs. These continue to include...
What you Need to Know About Inflation and your Insured Property Values
Since 2020, the world has seen supply chain problems, catastrophic weather events, wars, political upheaval, and viruses. All of these events have put upward pressure on costs for...
Where’s the Best Place for Brunch in Waterloo Region?
PSA: Mother’s Day is less than a week away! Don’t panic, there is still time to do something special for Mom. Instead of getting her another gift card or an apron with cats on it, you...
What are the Best Food Trucks in Waterloo Region?
With the warmer weather, thoughts of summer jump into many people’s minds, and with it comes the urban rituals of parks, splash pads, and food trucks! Who doesn’t love a tasty meal or a...
How to Keep your Commercial Property Safe this Winter
With Ontario's "Slip & Fall" Claims Period Reduced, Here's What You Need To Do The cold weather is here - bringing with it snow and ice, meaning that potentially dangerous walking...
What your Business needs to know about Compiled Financial Information
Important Changes Coming for Financial Statements For the first time in more than 30 years, the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) have updated its accounting standards...