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The Insurance Podcast
by Pete Tessier & Curt Wyatt
Pete Tessier & Curt Wyatt host the leading podcast about Insurance. Whether it's home insurance, auto insurance, business, people, insurance companies or more the Insurance Podcast discusses the relevant issues within the P&C insurance sector. From CEOs, to insurance brokers, VPs, owners, innovators, the podcast will feature those within the insurance industry who lead change. This podcast also considers the future with social media, consumer facing, fin-tech or startups, or AI, we will shed light on what technology is doing to insurance products and companies.
Episodes
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A Commercial Quoting CRM? Nick Kidd from Quotey shares the future- Part I
Commercial insurance has always been product that helps a broker establish their value proposition, now as Quotey approaches it's next incarnation, CEO and co-founder Nick Kidd, explains in part one of this two part series how it's not longer a commercial app and quoting tool, but a serviceable...
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WICC celebrating 30 years: grass roots to national force
The women in insurance cancer crusade, or WICC, is more than an insurance based charity, it is a purpose to change how we address cancer and support the fight against it. We had the pleasure to sit down with the current co-chairs and past chair to talk about it's origins, the stigma of cancer…
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Arun Balakrishnan: AI can co-exist with your insurance architecture
As the CEO of Xceedance Arun Balakrishnan has seen many tech changes through his career starting with selling online in India. He explains how AI does not have to upend your vision, team, and tech stack to find success with it. In this episode: Who the companies will be who find success with AI,...
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NICC 2026- Where industry leaders meet
When insurance industry leaders want learn they show up at NICC. As we sit one month away from this conference in Quebec City, this episode will profile speakers, the agenda, and why NICC is an essential event year after year. In this epiosde: What's in store for attendees How topics and themes…
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The Global View of P&C Insurance Modernization with Michal Trochimczuk- Sollers Consulting
It's not often someone who's business touches insurance in almost all global regions wants to share their view but Michal Trochimczuk sat down to share where he sees progress, successes, and challenges with P&C insurance and the lessons learned. In this episode: What global trends need to be...
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Find 'hire value' with your insurance talent
Shelley Billinghurst isn't trying to disrupt recruitment for the insurance industry but she might disrupt how insurance approaches finding great talent. As the President and founder of Hire Value Shelley has some insights about the insurance industry and it's talent attraction practices that are...
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Reinsurance re-imagined for the future- Gavin Lillywhite SVP Xceedance
Reinsurance seems to be spoken about but still largely misunderstood. Gavin Lillywhite, SVP with Xceedance pulls back the curtain and explains how reinsurance is evolving and the role it plays. With reinsurers being far more aggressively focused with their capacity and finding new opportunities…
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The state of brokerages in 2025? Alex Wong from Smythe LLP shares the data.
Smythe LLP has been producing a P&C brokerage report for a number of years so we had Alex Wong, Partner in Advisory Services, talk about the data and answer a few questions about the state of the brokerage industry last year. In this episode: What are the fears most brokers have? How are the…
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Building with AI to solve your insurance business problem.
Ty Robben is not a tech expert, nor is he an AI wizard. In fact he's an underwriter and someone who probably leans more to the 'old fashioned' way of doing things but that does not mean he's not trying make business processes better. We met via social media on X as Ty described his efforts to…
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ReConnect 2026: accessible & regulated capital
Reinsurance has long been looked at as the top end of the insurance capital food chain but with marketing conditions changing rapidly, understanding how reinsurance works and how it is more accessible than ever has never been more important. At ReConnect in the Cayman Islands, the industry is...
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Technology & Transformation for insurance with Trust
James Benham isn't trying to convince insurance entities to transform and modernize, he knows that's inevitable. His company JBK is there to help insurance organizations realize potential and minimize the pain along the way. In a rare business model, James and his team provide the services that...
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Scalable AI that adapts for insurance organizations
Jai Mansukhani didn't plan to develop AI systems for insurance however he saw an opportunity to bring expertise into an industry that needed more than another tech product. When he co-founded General Magic the name was Open Sesame but now with an incredible $7.2m seed round and a pivot in purpose...
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The Insuretech Trust Index- Steve Pieroway
Steve Pieroway is no stranger to technology or insurance with a career spanning over 25 years across both fields. Now as the founder of Benevolent Marketing Steve has conducted an insuretech trust index survey and recently published the results. We caught up with Steve to help contextualize the...
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Google Alerts for Insurance? Visualping brings new technology for risk assessment
Visualping isn't a new company but it is a new entrant to insurance. Co-founder and CEO Serge Salager drops by to discuss how his company is attempting to become the Google Alerts for insurance with real-time risk insights. In this episode: How real-time data can help underwriters assess and...
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Looking back at 2025 and what's ahead for 2026
2025 was a year for the making for the podcast and P&C insurance. Not only did we find ourselves at a variety of different events, these allowed the show to tap into new content and perspectives. So take a stroll down what was 2025 and get ready for some thoughts on where 2026 will go and what to...
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ITC 2025- where insurance is going from those leading the change
It's time to revisit some of the highlights of 2025 as we enter into 2026 and the impending changes across insurance. This episode is a collection of interviews from various leaders and companies who were in attendance. What we did was take the themes that all the guests naturally arrived at...
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Guidewire Connections: Enabling a deeper experience from insurer to insured.
The Guidewire Connections event that happens every year is not just a celebration for the SaaS insurance software provider, it's a chance see the vision, and extended ecosystem of partners who make the value come alive. Curt Wyatt attended the event this year and was there when news broke, heard...
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The Future of Insurance: the conference to forecast change and opportunity
Reuters puts on many events and coming up is the Future of Insurance Canada, held in Toronto. As the industry adapts and manages market changes, trade tensions, and global issues we sat down with Ollie Smith, from Reuters Events to learn about the event and how it is evolving to meet the needs of...
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An underwriter & an actuary walk onto a podcast...
It's rare to get access to underwriters let alone actuaries but this episode features both as Ashley Karg and Kelly Gates from McGill & Partners join the show. They share their perspectives on what goes into underwriting and the actuarial process behind and a whole lot more including debuting...
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Location data: How TomTom powers insurance with risk and pricing
Before the advent of embedded screens in almost all vehicles there used to be accessories to help navigate and guide your trips and often it was a TomTom device. This episode features Vinod Poomalai the Product Marketing Leader for TomTom talking about how their location data is powering aspects…
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Insuring a niche with Mike Lough of Intact Public Entities
Everyone loves to find a niche to insure but what about building our products and coverages for niches that present specific needs and challenges? Mike Lough, VP of Distribution, Community Services drops in to discuss how Intact Public Entities is serving specific niches and how brokers can grow...
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The art & science of insurance transformation
Peter McMurtrie knows change. As a C-suite executive spanning a career across insurance he has seen many trends. Now with West Monroe helping insurance organizations manage change he shares his knowledge about how to prepare and succeed. In this episode: What it takes to implement and deploy AI...
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Underwriting in a dangerous time: NICC 2025 is bringing new insights
Being the new-(ish) President of MSA Research is one job, but putting on the most important insurance event in a country is filling some pretty big shoes for Nevina Kishun. With the National Insurance Conference of Canada event happening in 19 days we talk with Nevina about the issues the facing...
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Claims service is evolving and bringing results
Claims service is evolving and Paul Disney, Chief Product and Technology Officer, and itel have a vision and the data ready. Paul shares important lessons claims experiences are teaching the insurance industry and how those lessons are shaping technology and service options that itel provides. In...
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Fear flood losses no more with FloodFlash
FloodFlash is not another insuretech, rather it's technology, data, and underwriting combined into a new product to help cover a peril that causes the insurance industry many problems. Co-founders Adam Rimmer and Dr. Ian Bartholomew share their early vision and how they addressed the peril no one...
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Forms with Intelligence- Alun Lucas of Zuko Analytics
As insurance attempts to become more interactive for customers the data still needs to be entered and those forms are key parts of the customer journey. Alun Lucas of Zuko Analytics shares how looking at forms and how customers behave with them can help insurance distributing entities. In this...
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AI in the Underwriting Chair with Jeff Sutton, Markel
AI and its impact is looked at with curiosity, desire, concern, and a bit of fear, but with insurance its presence is often seen with affecting distribution and customer experience. However, is enough focus happening on use within the underwriting chair? Jeff Sutton, Senior VP Sales and Marketing...
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Innovating Insurance Marketing with Steve Pieroway
Marketing for insurance is a challenge when it's easy but when the space becomes more competitive and crowded, what can be done to stand out? Steve Pieroway, founder of Benevolent Marketing talks, content, creative, messaging and more. In this episode: How understanding lived experience matters…
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Reinsurance is growing and providing opportunities: [Re]Connect 2025
Never before has reinsurance been talking about so much by so many across insurance. At ReConnect 2025 we talked with the people who are finding new ways to raise, manage, measure, regulate, and distribute capital into the insurance industry. In this episode: How regulatory authorities are…
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Sounding off before signing off...for now.
Graham Haigh has seen a thing or two during his insurance career, now looking at a deserved retirement he sounds off about some of the problems he sees in the P&C sector. In this episode: What he sees as the biggest challenge in the industry Scaling up with mergers and acquisitions Should…
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Are you paying a Tech Tariff with your insurance technology?
Legacy insurance technology is costly and debatably efficient but there is more and more talk about the hidden fees that come with accessing your data. Sherif Gemayel, founder of Trufla Technology shares some thoughts on what he calls "Tech Tariffs". In this episode: What the true cost of…
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Data preparedness for insurance entities- Mike Allee
Data is still the principal currency for insurance businesses but as more try to leverage the value of their data for modernization and AI adoption, what issues do they face? Mike Allee, President of Universal Conversion Technologies, shares what organizations need to consider for their future.…
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QuickFacts- the startup insurance needs
Insurance brokers and agents are always looking for efficiencies and QuickFacts might be the one insuretech startup that delivers right away. The founders, Jeff and Christy Barsalou share their story and lessons as a startup, how to grow and how stepping away from the broker world was key to…
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Angela Sethi wants you to sell insurance with a modern experience
Selling insurance easily is a challenge that is slowly being solved but not easily. Angela Sethi, CEO and co-founder of Mangopolicy, believes the solution is not that far off: In this episode: How existing technology can power insurance sales without headaches Why brokers and agents need to look…
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How Insurance is preparing for the next CAT event at CAT IQ Connect
CAT event and losses are never a good story but the insurance industry is coming together to look at the future and how to address the problems CAT losses cause. In this episode: Why parametric insurance solutions align with CAT events How building codes need to consider variations in climate...
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AI Agents are the future broker assistants with Flow Specialty
AI is all the rage but now we have an insurance wholesaler, Flow Specialty, deploying AI Agents into the workflow and broker experience. CEO and Co-founder Sivan Iram explains how the value of using AI powered agents will help brokers and agents accelerate their customer journey in the SME…
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Aligning data, technology and the future: Perspectives from NICC
In part 2 of our interviews at NICC 2024 we look at thoughts from leaders who shared perspectives on what will affect insurance when it comes to global positioning, data, technology, and joint purpose. This collection of thoughts taps into a statement around geopolitical issues to start and then...
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Connecting CAT: Perspectives from leaders at NICC
CAT losses are more than a tragedy, they are a real event that the insurance industry has to address but there are many layers to the challenge. During our interviews at NICC we heard from Peter Routledge, Ceyleste Power, Paddy Jago, Paul Kovacs, Matt Godsoe, and Bob Fitzgerald on many subjects…
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CAT IQ Connect: Helping Insurance Adapt
Recent fires and a record breaking summer of CAT losses has the insurance industry nearing turmoil when it comes to understanding when CAT losses will occur, where, and how impactful they will be. Laura Twidle CEO and Caroline Floyd of CAT IQ sat down to talk about the summer of CAT losses and…
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Guidewire Connections- the strategy creating insurance for the future
Guidewire Connections is not just an average conference, it's a showcase for insurers, partners, and anyone else who wants to understand what one of the largest insurance software platforms/ecosystems is building for the future of insurance. The theme was Agility in Action and the message was...
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2024- An insurance year in review
2024 was once again a transformative year for The Insurance Podcast. We were at more events than ever, we met more people than we can remember and produced more content including videos from some of our events and interviews. In this episode: A review of the year by the hosts Favorite people we…
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Cayman Captive Forum 2024- How captive insurance is solving industry problems
Captive insurance used to live in a secret place under mysterious conditions but that's changing. As regions such as Cayman offer unique expertise and financial opportunities, a solution to many of hte P&C industry's challenges could be on the horizon. In this episode: The role CIMA (Cayman…
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ITC Episode 3: Transverse Ventures, Hover, Insured.io, & Agent Sync
Our final installment from Insuretech Connect in Las Vegas begins with a look at where things were five years ago to how the endangered species of agents and brokers are now commanding attention and respect. In this episode: How the venture funding world looks at insurance and technology now...
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ITC EPisode 2: Neuralmetrics, Optalitix, Carpe Data, & Novidea
In our second episode from Insuretech Connect we bring C-suite execs from Neuralmetrics, Optalitix, Carpe Data, & Novidea to show the route between data usage from risk and product through to distribution and delivering insights on the products sold. In this episode: Why the deployment of…
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ITC Episode 1: Clara Analytics, Core Logic, Verisk, & McKenzie Intelligence Services
There's a theme to this episode and it revolves around data usage, how it's acquired, how it can be deployed and what can be learned from it. Featuring execs from Clara Analytics, Core Logic, Verisk and McKenzie intelligence Services In this episode: The importance of understanding all aspects of...
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Insuretech Connect Recap with Nick Lamparelli
Insuretech Connect is a lot of things, overwhelming being the most obvious description. However, within the vastness of the event lies some very smart people and interesting technology and strategies. We caught up with FOTP- (friend of the podcast) Nick Lamparelli on the last day and discussed…
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Underwriting for the future- Will Harnett
Underwriting is the backbone of insurance and Will Harnett, Head of Business Strategy for Send Technology, drops some big thoughts on why there are still so many friction points in the ecosystem. In this episode: What a digital underwriting ecosystem should look like Why it's important to manage...
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A new frontier for insurance sales and growth with Mylo CEO David Embry
Digital distribution is on every radar across the insurance industry but how to achieve it is not always apparent. Mylo CEO and Co-founder David Embry shares his views on a digital strategy that generates over 10,000 leads per month. In this episode: How embedded insurance grows leads and sales...
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Insurance humor in the face of adversity
It's never a dull moment in the insurance industry and that goes for social media too! We caught up with @insuranceagentmemes from Instagram fame to talk about how they find humor in the face of insurance adversity. In this episode: How real life experience drives humour Thoughts on challenges...
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Insurance Law & Compliance- Dentons shares the inside issues to consider
No one wants to think about the labyrinth of compliance and regulations that lie across the insurance industry but Laurie Lapalme and Marisa Coggin from Dentons do. In this episode: How government regs affect the industry The importance and nuances of multi-jurisdictional compliance Regulatory...
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Pete Tessier & Curt Wyatt host the leading podcast about Insurance. Whether it's home insurance, auto insurance, business, people, insurance companies or more the Insurance Podcast discusses the relevant issues within the P&C insurance sector. From CEOs, to insurance brokers, VPs, owners, innovators, the podcast will feature those within the insurance industry who lead change. This podcast also considers the future with social media, consumer facing, fin-tech or startups, or AI, we will shed light on what technology is doing to insurance products and companies.
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