The Markel Difference

Markel serves only one market – the Canadian trucking industry. As Canada’s largest and most respected trucking insurer, we’ve been providing continuous service to the country’s trucking industry since 1951.

With our focused expertise, we provide our policyholders and their brokers with unparalleled service and solutions. We want to be more than your insurance company, we want to be your partner in success.

To learn more about our services and solutions, download the Markel Corporate Brochure.

Financial Stability

Trucking insurance is a notoriously volatile sector, and many insurance companies have come and gone over the years. Markel has been here for five decades and we’ve learned a lot - not only about our business, but about yours as well.

AM Best the most trusted international insurance rating agency in the world, rates Markel as “A Excellent”.

Markel is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northbridge Financial, Canada’s largest commercial property and casualty insurance group with more than $5 billion in assets. Northbridge is, in turn, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, one of the country’s leading financial services holding companies. Fairfax is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FFH.

With Markel being a member of this large, stable family, our customers can enjoy the peace of mind of knowing that we will be able to keep our obligations to them and meet the long-term needs of their business.

Fast Facts

• Markel is Canada’s only national trucking insurance specialist, 100% Canadian owned and operated. 
• Markel has served the Canadian trucking industry continuously since 1951. 
• Markel is Canada’s largest trucking insurer, writing more long-haul trucking business than any other insurer in Canada. 
• Markel’s customer claims satisfaction rating runs over 90%. 
• Markel is an “A” rated company, defined as “Excellent” by AM Best. 
• More than 90% of Markel’s customers renew year after year. 
• Markel is the only insurer in North America to operate its own transportation training facility. 
• Markel operates the largest Safety and Training Services department in the Canadian insurance industry. 
• Markel operates the largest trucking Claims and Underwriting departments in the Canadian insurance industry. 
• Markel works with over 800 independent insurance brokerages across Canada, with more joining all the time.