Experience + Focus = Excellence.

Mission

Our mission is to create innovative insurance solutions for stakeholders by combining the strength of leading Canadian Insurers to provide true risk transfer and nuclear risk management for our clients.
Experience + Focus = Excellence.

Values

• Expertise. Over 65 years experience in understanding nuclear insurance on a global scale and how it translates to Canadian business.
• Creating Added Value. There is no way Insurers, individually, could create a centre of excellence. NIAC’s specialty is nuclear business and NIAC continually strives to provide value to the various sectors of our industry.
• Integrity. NIAC strives to provide equitable treatment to clients and members, carefully balancing the needs of both.
• Stability. We are financially strong because members of NIAC are top rated insurers.
• Innovation. NIAC provides true risk transfer solutions for nuclear liability and property insurance.

What We Do

We specialize in high quality insurance risk management, underwriting and inspections for Canadian nuclear exposures. We provide true risk transfer, secure insurance capacity and collaborate with the world’s nuclear experts to create innovative domestic solutions for our clients and members.

Whom We Serve

The benefit of our experience works for all stakeholders: insured clients, members, multi-level government agencies and all Canadians. Since 1958 NIAC has had a history of partnering with Insurers around the globe to create reliable risk management for the nuclear industry.

What We Stand For

NIAC stands for the value of excellence. We offer Canadian risk solutions, thought leadership and expertise that provides security and confidence to our customers and members. NIAC is passionate in leading the domestic nuclear industry in the areas of nuclear insurance law, good governance and claims administration and we collaborate with the world’s leading experts to create a true Centre of Excellence.

Why NIAC Exists

Governments and industry are aware of the need for financially strong insurance for the sustainability of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. NIAC is a voluntary, non-profit, unincorporated association of insurers forming liability and property damage pools - insuring nuclear installations, suppliers and transportation of nuclear substances in Canada.

Who Runs NIAC

A committee of member companies provides oversight for NIAC. Pool members are property/casualty insurers, reinsurers and Lloyd's Underwriters licensed in Canada and approved by committee. The association employs in-house staff and specialists to manage the underwriting and administration of the pool operations.

Staff Profiles

Chair

Scott Vandenberg

MBA

Scott has 30 plus years of experience in commercial property and casualty insurance and works at Northbridge Financial Corporation as the VP of Research and Product Development. He has an MBA from the University of Toronto and also serves as a Director for the Heartfulness Institute of Canada and is a certified meditation trainer for Heartfulness Meditation.

Managing Director

Ed Nesbitt

BEng, CIP

An engineer by background, Ed is a tenured insurance professional with 20 years’ experience in property & casualty commercial insurance management and underwriting, as well as client relationships. His career includes broker experience with DG Dunbar Insurance Brokers, Commercial Insurance leadership roles at Gore Mutual Insurance and Aviva Canada, and senior underwriting positions at Intact Insurance and AXA Insurance.

Underwriter

Donald A. Greer

FCIP, CRM

Don has over fifty years of experience in Commercial Underwriting and Risk Management, most recently as the Technical Underwriting Manager at Ecclesiastical, a position from which he retired in 2022. Prior to Ecclesiastical, he was Allianz Canada’s Commercial Property Manager for Canada.

Executive Director

Chris Duffield

BA, FCIP

Chris served as the former Chair of NIAC from 2016 – 2022 and served on the Governing Committee for many years prior to her service as Chair. In addition to her involvement in the nuclear insurance, she has over 46 years of experience in our industry, most recently as a Senior Vice President at Swiss Reinsurance Company Canada where she was responsible for managing key property & casualty treaty reinsurance relationships with a focus on developing traditional and non-traditional solutions to meet clients’ needs. In addition, Chris was the Past President of the Toronto Society of Fellows and the former Chair of the John E. Lowes Insurance Education Fund.