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Insurance Banter with Burand & Borup — 87 episodes

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Title
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Captive Insurance: Smart Risk Strategy or Dangerous Tax Trap?

2

From $1M a Day in Losses to Industry Turnaround: The BrickStreet Story

3

Insurance Agents Aren’t ‘Advisors.’ Stop Pretending

4

If They Offer You Stock…Don’t Sign Until You Hear This

5

Don’t Panic: Handling Department of Insurance Complaints Like a Pro

6

Insurance Can’t Win Without a Real Fight: The Lobbying Mistake Costing Everyone

7

Why Most Insurance Producers Fail — and How the Right “Car” Creates Rainmakers

8

Jeff Mango from AM Best discusses Delegated Underwriting Authority Ratings

9

The Silent Danger - Fiduciary Risk in Self Funded Plans

10

How will tariffs impact insurance pricing

11

Easy way to avoid a claim denial

12

What does underwriting flexibility mean?

13

Whitepaper disclosure in Florida

14

Uncovered: The History of Insurance

15

State of the Market

16

Ensuring Workforce Stability through safety, wellbeing, and performance

17

Future of property inspections in the insurance industry

18

Employee / Producer Development Program

19

What does 2025 hold for the Insurance Industry?

20

Trade Secret Insurance

21

Every HR Problem becomes a Sales Problem

22

Chris Boggs!

23

The impact of finding (and hiring) the right person for your team

24

Insurance Market Madness: Creative Solutions Reign Supreme

25

Insurance History

26

Anatomy of a Carrier / Agency Agreement

27

Roadblocks to Sales Success

28

Fronting Carriers for a Captive

29

Absolute Exclusions are Absolutely Scary

30

How do Independent Agents compete with the 'Big Boys"?

31

How has the hard market impacted agency financing?

32

E&O Considerations in the E&S Market

33

Creating an Insurance Program

34

Overcoming reluctance to having hard conversations

35

Proper usage of AI

36

Effective agency management utilizing behavioral styles

37

Carrier strategy conversation with Deep Customer Connections

38

What is a reinsurance broker and how can they help you?

39

How the insurance market is poised to use aerial insights, machine learning, and remote monitoring to improve bottom line costs.

40

Ethics and Appraisals

41

Using AI to Grow Your Agency

42

State of the Industry

43

Demystifying AI

44

What is a MGA/MGU?

45

More on Behavioral Styles in Selling with Bob Ford

46

AM Best on the Delegated Underwriting Authority Market

47

What is it really like going through the sale of your agency and life afterwards?

48

What is causing this hard market? Maybe not what you think

49

Legal Nuts and Bolts of Buying and Selling an Insurance Agency

50

Behavioral Styles in Selling with Bob Ford

51

Alternative Risk Transfer Opportunities

52

Carrier Strategies

53

Who is Live Oak Bank and what can they do for you?

54

Business Practices Landmines - What to look for and how to avoid them

55

The death of the insurance agent isn't imminent...maybe

56

Perpetuation Horror Stories

57

The Incredible Shrinking Insurance Companies

58

Preparing an agency for the sale...or what you should be doing already!

59

Providing Client Value Through Education

60

Successful Producer Recruiting

61

Increase the chances of producer success

62

Legal issues regarding ownership and sale of a book of business

63

Minimize Staffing Challenges

64

Anurag Shah from Aureus Analytics

65

Attracting, Retaining, and Growing your Organization with Great Employees

66

Using your voice - Tracy Goodwin from Captivate the Room

67

A little background...the origin of Burand & Associates

68

Can the inspection process bring value to your clients

69

Psychology of Ownership Transition

70

All things ESOP

71

One Trillion Dollars

72

How to improve your producer hiring

73

Finding Talent in the Insurance Industry

74

3 Concerning Exposures for Business Owners

75

What does it mean to be a professional agent?

76

Do agents really know what they are doing when selling Cyber?

77

Why do so many insurance practitioners not believe in what they are selling?

78

How Insurance Brokers and Carriers Create Real Value

79

What is an agent's duty to find coverage?

80

The Insurance Playground

81

Agency E&O from a plaintiff's perspective

82

Is your goal to just make money OR make money AND take care of the client

83

The Future of Insurance with Bryan Falchuk

84

Is it a distribution problem?

85

What is wrong with this picture

86

Cyber with Mark Fidel - February 16, 2021

87

Cyber with Mark Fidel - January 19, 2021