In a summer filled with severe weather, Intact Financial says it has already helped nearly nine thousand of its customers in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia in getting their lives back to normal after a summer of major storms and wildfires. The severe weather events included large hail storms in Alberta, heavy rain and wind storms in a number of regions, tornados in the Greater Toronto Area and the Laurentian region of Quebec, and flooding in Hamilton and Ottawa.

Intact estimates the severe weather events caused approximately $140 million in insured damages to its customers. Intact estimates a pre-tax impact on its third quarter results of approximately $115 million.

The company has a national coordinated storm management system that further enhances its abilities to assist customers on the scene. Intact’s 24/7 call centres were put on alert and emergency responders were able to quickly get to all of the affected regions, deploying teams of claims adjusters and repair crews from its network of contractors to where they were most urgently needed