As climate risk intensifies, some senior executives say the real danger now is a break in trust between clients and insurers.

“Our industry is at an inflection point around trust,” said David Leibl (pictured right), VP sustainability and corporate affairs at Wawanesa, during a recent panel in Toronto.

Leibl argued that insurers are being pulled into the centre of a growing storm: communities hammered by wildfires, floods and smoke; governments struggling to fund resilient infrastructure; and policyholders unsure where their safety net really begins and ends.

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“Canadians aren’t necessarily fully clear on where our responsibility or our obligations as insurers starts and ends, and we’re trying to f

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