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Experts from Pario, ParioQuantify, Cira and ClaimsPro enjoyed the chance to network with insurance industry professionals at the Young Insurance Professionals of Toronto (YIPT) Annual Cruise along the harbourfront on June 20th. Our own William Trougakos is Account Manager, Sales at Cira but also an Executive on the YIPT Events committee. YIPT is a platform to engage, grow and give back to the community with such initiatives as to peer-to-peer networking, mentorship programs, and relationship building.
A new Mentorship program was recently launched to ClaimsPro employees. The refreshed program provides a more structured, formalized process that clearly outlines terms, responsibilities, and oversight of the mentor/mentee relationship. In addition, the program includes a mentoring training module that enables mentors and mentees to align expectations, thereby creating a more mutually beneficial experience for both parties. “The program is focused on creating learning opportunities for employees across our business,” says Lorri Frederick, President, ClaimsPro. “This sharing of knowledge is key to ensuring that we are trained up in all aspects and is in keeping with our mandate to continue to expand and refine our service offering to clients.” Benefits include: building the mentee’s technical claims handling expertise; facilitating knowledge and client information transfer from senior or retiring Adjusters; continuity of business relationships; and collaboration and cooperation.
Employees in SCM offices throughout Canada recently participated in the Warburg Pincus Volunteer week, volunteering their time to charitable organizations in their community. This annual global initiative happens each May and highlights the value that we all place on being responsible corporate citizens and making a meaningful effort to give back to our communities. As part of this initiative, Warburg Pincus makes a $1,000 donation on behalf of each participating organization to the non-profit with which they partner.
On June 12, the St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup for the first time in the franchise’s 52-year history. On June 13, the Toronto Raptors won the NBA Finals for the first time in the franchise’s 24-year history. In St. Louis, Missouri, the whole town was buzzing with excitement and team spirit. The Nixon & Company office celebrated with bagels, and Blues-themed donuts, and there was a lot of blue worn around the office all week. In Canada, SCM offices, including Cira in Mississauga and IPG and ClaimsPro in Toronto, were feeling the excitement and wearing the swag. No matter which side of the border you’re on, you could cheer for your country. The St. Louis Blues had a whopping 20 Canadian-born players on the roster, which is the most in the league this year. Americans made up 67% of the Toronto Raptors this season. As our SCM companies demonstrate, Canada and the United States working together is a recipe for success.
Dr. Michael Schweigert joined Cira as Medical Director in November 2018 to oversee all aspects of clinical activity and education. He was recently a guest at OIAA Kawartha/Durham’s Annual Adjusters Summit with the theme Fifty Shades of Fraud. Dr. Schweigert highlighted the importance of independent medical examinations in providing unbiased, in-depth and insightful assessments in regard to diagnosis, impairment assessment and issues of causation. “The family physician is charged with the immediate and ongoing needs of the patient, not with the nuances of issues of etiology and resulting impairment associated with an accident. The independent medical examiner can take the time to carefully consider all of the clinical facts of the case – the examinee history, physical examination, investigations as these relate the current body of medical knowledge.”
Dave Campbell, Manager, Adjusting Application Services, Edmonton, set up a programming challenge as a team building exercise for SCM’s developers and IT Application Services team managers. Each SCM company was represented in the challenge with sixteen participants competing head-to-head for the coveted trophy. The game combined the strategies of Fortnite and Rock Paper Scissors with the dazzling graphic style of 1992’s Mine Sweeper. The goal was to successfully create a bot that would independently make winning choices based on the developer’s coding parameters. The bots picked up rocks, scissors and paper to battle one another while the playing area continuously shrank. Many of the bots tended to avoid conflict, but one was quite aggressive about chasing people down, and it payed off. Mike Brown, Senior Programmer Analyst, Edmonton, was the winner of the challenge and received the coveted Bender trophy. This was the first of four programming challenges in 2019. “It was a great coding challenge, fun and informative,” said Dustin Mudryk, Director, Application Services.
