Subjects Eligible for Accreditation

As stipulated in the Regulation on Compulsory Professional Development, the ChAD offers accreditation for training activities in the following five areas: Compliance, Administration, Insurance Techniques, Law and Legislation and Professional Development. 

Compliance
These training activities must enable a member to become more knowledgeable and develop his/her expertise with respect to ethics and professional practice of damage insurance. This includes courses dealing with: The Act respecting the distribution of financial products and services, the Law and Rules of the Autorité des marchés financiers, keeping and preservation of books and registers, relevant legislation and regulations applied to damage insurance representatives and firms, ethics, inquiry process and the Privacy Act.

Discover the subjects that are included in the Compliance area. (Available in French only)
 

Administration
These training activities must enable a member to become more knowledgeable and develop his/her expertise in the management and administration of a damage insurance firm. This includes courses on the following subjects: economics, accounting and finance, human resources management, marketing, information systems management, management and business strategies.

Insurance Techniques
These training activities must enable a member to become more knowledgeable and develop his/her expertise in the field of damage insurance. This includes courses dealing with: personal lines insurance, commercial lines insurance, risk management, claims adjustment, building services, investigation and loss-prevention techniques.

Law and Legislation
These training activities must enable a member to become more knowledgeable and develop his/her expertise with respect to the relevant legislation and regulations. This includes courses dealing with: damage insurance, civil law and commercial law.

Professional Development
These training activities must enable a member to become more knowledgeable and develop his/her expertise in the field of damage insurance. This includes courses dealing with: customer service, sales techniques and knowledge transmission methods.

In keeping with our members’ concerns, these training activities must have a direct link to damage insurance or firm management and enable the ChAD to better protect the public. Consequently, language or communications courses, as well as “personal development” courses are not eligible for accreditation.