MANUFACTURING AND UTILITIES

Cansure has developed one of the most comprehensive and competitive suites of coverages to address your Manufacturing and Utilities clients’ insurance needs. With a wealth of underwriting experience in both property and casualty, you can be confident that our seasoned team of underwriters will provide a home you can trust for those clients. Cansure’s policy wordings have been drafted with breadth of coverage and one-stop placement in mind.

Our modular policy makes it easy to add our specialty wrap coverages: Property and Liability Terrorism Coverage, Cyber and Data Breach Coverage, Legal Expense Coverage, Earthquake Deductible Buy-Down Coverage, Group Accident Coverage and Environmental Impairment Liability all on the same policy.

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Michael Whiteside
Michael Whiteside(604) 694-7684 mwhiteside@cansure.com

Senior Underwriter, Manufacturing and Wholesale Practice Leader

Michael Whiteside’s insurance career began at the Sovereign General Insurance Company in 1995 where he was responsible for mapping and policy typing. Over a short time, he quickly expanded his insurance expertise as an Underwriting Assistant to an Underwriter in 1997; at first specializing in Casualty and Automobile, then later moving into Property as well. Since then, Michael has held progressively senior positions at leading domestic insurance companies, most recently as an Assistant Regional Manager for B.C. Michael joined Cansure in 2013 as a Senior Underwriter, where he has taken on leadership of the Manufacturing and Wholesale business as a Practice Leader

Alan Tam
Alan Tam(416) 342-6381 atam@cansure.com

Underwriting Manager

Alan Tam began his insurance career with The Co-Operators in 2004. Since then, he has developed his broad industry expertise and underwriting skills through his experience working at a direct insurance company, as well as being a broker. Alan’s strong underwriting eye allows him to assist our broker partners with all types of risks, complementing his focus on Small to Medium Enterprise accounts, as well as Forestry, and Mining. He is also experienced in handling Lloyd’s placements and other complex accounts. Alan joined Cansure’s Toronto team in 2015 as a Senior Underwriter; today he is now an Underwriting Manager at the Toronto branch. Alongside his leadership role Alan continues to be involved with day-to-day underwriting and mentoring or junior underwriting team.