ARA Teams with Westland Insurance Group to Bring Insurance to Canadian ARA Members
Westland Insurance Group and the American Rental Association announced an exclusive partnership to deliver insurance solutions to ARA members across Canada.
Westland and ARA offer a commercial insurance package that includes liability, property (building, stock, and equipment), contractors’ equipment that is rented or sold and cyber insurance.
“Westland is excited to work with ARA to bring this comprehensive commercial insurance package to Canadian ARA members,” said Donna Barclay, executive vice president, commercial and specialty at Westland Insurance. “Our exclusive partnership means Canadian ARA members now have access to uniquely specialized insurance protection to complement education, business resources, news, and research insights designed for the equipment and event rental industry."
Tony Conant, ARA CEO, said, “We’re really happy to have found a partner like Westland Insurance that will set our Canadian members up for success. Westland understands the complexities of rental and why insurance is so crucial to business operations. We’re excited to work with them and serve our members in all provinces.”
This package is now available to ARA members across Canada and more information can be found on the ARA website – click here.
Westland Insurance Group is one of the largest and fastest-growing independent insurance brokers in Canada. Trading $2.5 billion of premium, Westland continues to expand coast to coast. Westland's brokers provide expertise and advisory-based services across commercial, personal, employee benefits, farm, and specialty insurance segments. Since its founding in 1980, Westland has remained a family-owned company. For more information, visit westlandinsurance.ca.
About the Author
Michael Roth
Editor
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.