Aviva Canada Inc. (formerly CGU Group Canada Ltd.) is one of the largest property and casualty insurance companies in Canada. A wholly-owned subsidiary of UK-based Aviva p/c (the world's seventh largest insurance group), Aviva offers its customers the benefit of Canada 's widest network of incident management professionals and quality service partners, via a national network of independent insurance partners.
Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company was established in Canada about the same time that Canada was established. Its first president was Sir John A. MacDonald and the company is wholly owned in Canada. While they are the twelfth largest insurer in Canada, they are the sixth largest in Nova Scotia. Dominion is owned by E-L Financial Corporation which also operates Empire Life Insurance Company. They have an Atlantic Regional Office in Halifax with 50 employees.
Economical is the largest Canadian wholly owned insurance company and was established in 1871. Overall, they are the third largest insurer in Canada and their head office is in Waterloo, Ontario. They have a staff of 65 in their Nova Scotia office located in Bedford. Economical Mutual is different than most insurance companies in that it is a mutual company, accountable to its policyholders, not stockholders.
This company is part of the ING Group, a worldwide financial company whose core interests are insurance, banking and asset management. They operate on every continent in a total of seventy countries. They operate in Canada as ING which is Canada’s oldest insurance company founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1809. They are the largest insurer in both Canada and Nova Scotia. Through their acquisitions, we have been dealing with this company for most of the century. Recent acquisitions by ING in Halifax include the Wellington Insurance Company, the Guardian Insurance Company, Zurich Insurance and the Canadian Surety Company in Nova Scotia.
Royal & Sunalliance was established in 1710 and in Canada since 1835.They have been providing insurance in Cape Breton since the 1890’s. They are the third largest insurance company in Canada and one of the largest worldwide with its headquarters in London, England. They have a staff of 150 persons in their Atlantic Regional office in Dartmouth.
