Webinar: Solid Fuel Heating: What Brokers Need to Know

A client asks you the following questions. Are you prepared to answer them?

• Why is my insurance company worried about my woodstove or pellet stove?
• What is a WETT inspection and who is qualified to perform one?
• Why do I need to clean my chimney every year?
• Why do I need a back-up heat source when I already have an outdoor wood-fired boiler?

Wood-burning appliances in all their variations require extra care and handling by the client but also by the broker!

OBJECTIVES

Following this interactive webinar participants will be able to:

• Discuss the many types of solid-fuel heating appliances
• Realize the insurance concerns with the installation, operation, and maintenance of these appliances
• Explain the insurance concerns associated with solid fuel heating to your clients

RECOMMENDED FOR

• Personal-Lines or Farm Sales & Service Brokers

FACILITATOR – Jo Anne Mitchell, Effective Training & Communications Plus

Jo Anne Mitchell is the owner of Effective Training & Communications Plus. She is a member of The Chartered Insurance Professionals Society with over 30 years of insurance industry experience.

Jo Anne has held positions in Underwriting and Marketing with two major insurers with responsibility for numerous projects including developing and implementing front-line underwriting skills training programs for brokers and company underwriting staff.

A seasoned seminar leader, Jo Anne has provided classroom seminars and webinars for over 10,000 insurance professionals across Canada. She has spoken at insurance conventions in Ontario and Alberta and contributes articles to the BC and Alberta Broker Magazines. Jo Anne recently co-authored the re-write of the basic broker licensing course text “Becoming an Insurance Broker” for The Insurance Broker Association of Ontario.