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As a creator and designer of insurance solutions, I spend a lot of time discussing relevancy in insurance. As I have written and spoken in the past, no one wakes up wanting to buy insurance. There are no RVs in parking lots tailgating or campin
Seize the data!In this episode Nick discussed data with Max Drucker, co-founder and CEO of Carpe Data. We discussed what this revolution in data science means for insurance, both on the claims side and the underwriting side.Insurance has approa
In this episode of The Coverager Podcast, I spoke with Ryan McMahon, VP of Insurance and Government Affairs at Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT). The interview was inspired from a private conversation Ryan and I were having around connecting de
in 2010, Jane Wang, CEO of Optimity tragically lost her mother. Jane was already working in Pharma Mortality and felt like there was more that could have been done based on what she knew and felt an urgent need to share information about wellne
It's a big task to underwrite insurance. It's a big task to also to provide quality advice on coverage. It's an even bigger task to do both effectively, at scale while at the same time limiting yourself to just a handful of questions in order t
The majority of bankruptcies in the US are due predominantly to medical bills. Even with health insurance many of us are one bad event away from financial hardship. In this episode, I spoke with Veer Gidwaney, Mike Zarrillo (of Brella) and Scot
When the topic of life insurance underwriting comes up in our podcast conversations, there is generally a lot of handwringing about the friction & complexity in the buying process. In this episode, I spoke with Ken McNair and Al Mele of SCOR's
Building and selling new products for which no market exists in insurance and finance is incredibly difficult? Why? Partially it is the same reason why any new product is difficult (recall the Henry Ford quote - "If I had asked my customers wha
We all have something to sell. It could be ourselves, our product, our ideas. As someone who has gone through an investor pitch several times, I can tell you from experience that the dynamic is much much different when the people at the table k
For many reasons, catastrophe insurance is very expensive. Aside from being bad for the property owner, this is a horrible outcome for communities as society as one of the easiest quantifiable benefits of a robust insurance market, is that the
In this episode, Nick spoke with Travis Hedge, co-founder of Vouch. Vouch is an insurtech which helps other startups manage their risk and insurance. We discussed the challenges of measuring the exposure to risk for companies that are growing r
"Clients don't understand that their success is related on standing out, not fitting in....you want to be the needle in the haystack, not the haystack" - Don DraperOn some recent This Week in Coverager episodes, I have asked this question, if a
Part of the conflict between insurance buyers and insurance carriers is that while both stakeholders WANT the same outcome (neither the homeowner nor the insurer WANT a fire, neither the life insurance company nor the policyholder WANT a death)
What's it like to be the first insurance professional hired by a tech company looking to create an ambitious tech solution for insurance? In this episode, I spoke with Mke Gulla of Hippo. Mike and I discussed what it was, what he dynamic is cur
In Peter Thiel's book Zero to One, Peter talks about during the modernization of China, as they copied and pasted technologies from the Western world, they were able to leap over many of our legacy technologies and skip to our modern ones, like
Tammy Schwartz was VP of Underwriting & Operations at the California FAIR plan when she noticed that many of the properties that were arriving there were being non-renewed by the incumbent carrier for wildfire exposure, when, those exposures ac
Small business has been an underserved area of insurance. Compared to larger commercial accounts, small businesses generally have low premiums and above normal back-office activity (think, certificates of insurance). Those who have side hustles
It is well known that the insurance industry has a lot of IT legacy debt. Replacing those systems could cost individual companies tens of millions of dollars. In this episode I spoke with Wendy Aarons-Corman, CEO of OWIT about using microservic
In this episode I spoke to Steve Williams of Oli Insurance Services and Heffernan Insurance Brokers. We discussed how agents/brokers should be redoubling their efforts to focus on the business activities that are most valuable to their companie
An eye-opening episode where Jay Bregman, CEO of Thimble and Nick discuss how the post-pandemic economy will shift how a lot of small business gets done and will open the door for more on-demand insurance products. A lot of new entrpreneurs wil
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