The Issues and Answers Podcast cover art

All Episodes

The Issues and Answers Podcast — 157 episodes

#
Title
1

Helping Companies Make The Best Decisions Quickly

2

NAPSLO: Opportunity Abounds in E&S

3

The Institutes is Your Career Partner

4

Tokio Marine Specialty Features Multi Line Environmental Coverage

5

ReSource Pro: Insurance Operations Excellence

6

A Product Driven Underwriting Platform

7

EIS Builds 'Future Proof' Systems

8

Vertafore Forecasts Clouds

9

ACE Commercial Risk Services: Productivity Optimized

10

Freedom Specialty Insurance: Cyber is Soaring

11

IDT911: Breach Patrol

12

AIG Programs: Going the Distance

13

NAPSLO: Value Proposition

14

Philadelphia Insurance: Relationships Matter

15

Scottsdale Puts the Pro in Programs

16

Western Heritage: Integrating Solutions

17

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources: Expert Captive Analysis

18

Milliman: Arius Transforms Reserving

19

Hawaii: Aloha Captive Insurers

20

First State is First Choice for Captives

21

IMAC: Clearly Better Business

22

Mobile UBI Promises Zero to Live in 90 Days

23

Excess & Surplus Growing

24

NAPSLO: Meeting Customer Needs

25

Tokio Marine Specialty Continues to Stand Out

26

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Drives Profits Through Analytics

27

Vertafore Offers Big Data Solutions

28

Western Heritage Puts Garage Coverage in Drive

29

Lexington Has Winning Programs

30

Philadelphia Ins.Cos.' Value Proposition

31

Freedom: Experts in EPLI

32

Talent Plus Capital Equals Lexington

33

Scottsdale Insurance Company: 30 Years and Still Growing

34

The Century Advantage

35

Starr Marine Differentiates Itself with Clients

36

Conning's Steve Sonlin on Optimizing Capital

37

Insurers Get Served

38

Price Optimization at the Tipping Point

39

The CARA Toolset Advantage

40

Ironshore Insurance Services on Privacy Enhancement

41

The ISO Risk Analyzer Advantage

42

MSB's Jerry Fox on Consumer Confidence

43

A Solid Partnership

44

A Model of Success

45

Making the Connection

46

Program Market Sees Strengthening of Rates

47

Addressing the Concerns of Network Security

48

Philadelphia Insurance: A Good Track Record Is Key

49

Actuaries Invaluable to Captives

50

Actuaries Key in Formation of Captives

51

Arch's Edack on Financial Strength

52

Lexington Remains a Dominant E&S Insurer

53

Western Heritage: We Stand Apart From the Rest

54

Making Your Book of Business Profitable

55

Underwriting is King in E&S Market

56

The Institutes' Anita Bourke

57

SIAA's James Massielo

58

CPCU Society's Steve McElhiney

59

Don Harrell of Liberty International Underwriters on the Marine Market

60

Joe Corey and Beth Bronger-Jones of Hartford on Logistics Industry

61

Conning's Sherri Manetta on Having a Good Financial Modeling Process

62

Cutwater Asset Management on Risk Analysis Manager Tool

63

MSB's Aaron Mayfield on Managing a Company's Book of Business

64

ISO's Kevin Thompson on Customizable Models

65

Vertafore's Sharath Dorbala on Distribution Channel Efficiency

66

Brown Brothers Harriman's Joseph LoPorto on Captive Investment Portfolios

67

Lexington's Bill Whitehead on Choosing Captive Partners

68

Milliman's Chris Kogut and Joel Chansky on Captive Domicile Considerations

69

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources' Joe Herbers on Critical Questions for Audit Committees

70

York Programs' Mark Kissick

71

Peachtree Special Risk Brokers' Liz White

72

Liberty International Underwriters' Michael J. Carr

73

Lexington Insurance Co.'s Matthew Power

74

Admiral's Jim Cary

75

Ryan Specialty Group's Suzanne Brandt

76

Amwins' James Drinkwater

77

The American College's Arthur Tacchino

78

Agency Alliance's James Masiello

79

Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society's Warren Farrar

80

The Institutes' Anita Bourke

81

Diversified Insurance Facilities' Gary Marshall

82

Brainshark's Joe Gustafson

83

EXL's Bill Bloom

84

FirstBest Systems' Meira Primes

85

Flagstone Re’s David Flitman

86

InsurBanc's Mary Grazen

87

Ironshore's Kurtis Suhs

88

ISO's Stephen Clarke and Jeff DeTurris

89

ISO's John Cantwell and Howard Waldrop

90

Marshall & Swift/Boeckh's Steven Brewer

91

Quadrant's John Felton

92

Vertafore's Steven Finch

93

Hawaii's George Sumner

94

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources's Joseph A. Herbers

95

Sparta Insurance's Brian First

96

HSBC Bermuda's Jared Smith

97

Sanford Elsass, president and CEO of UniTer, discusses how the company forms and manages risk retention groups that provide general and professional liability insurance in the medical industry.

98

UniTer's Sanford Elsass

99

HM Insurance Provides Health Risk Solutions

100

AICPCU's Anita Bourke

101

SIAA's James Masiello

102

The American College's Mary Quist-Newins

103

MSB's Jonathon Kost

104

ISO's Kevin Thompson

105

AQS' Bruce Davis

106

Quadrant's Michael Macauley

107

3M's Lindsay Moran

108

EXL's Yogendra Goyal

109

Vertafore's Dave Acker

110

FirstBest Systems' John Belizaire, Julian Pelenur, and Joe Pilkerton

111

SPARTA's Brian First on the Current Alternative Risk Transfer and Specialty Landscape

112

Milliman's Joel Chansky on Captive Domicile Considerations Clients can Expect to Face

113

The Institutes' Peter Miller on How the Insurance Industry Can Fill the Shoes Left by Retiring Baby Boomers

114

RMS' Elizabeth Couchman on Managing Risks through Its New Application — the Underwriting Toolkit

115

TAPCO's Tap Johnson on Simplifying the Quoting and Binding Process for Agents

116

MSB's Jonathan Kost on How Automation Can Benefit Claims Adjusters and Underwriters

117

Audatex's Paul Gange on Streamlining the Claims Process in Auto Insurance Industry

118

CGI's Gordon Gaar on its New CGI Edge Platform, an End-to-End solution for the Policy Lifecycle

119

EXL Service's Yogendra Goyal on Going Beyond Outsourcing to Business Transformation and Innovation

120

Aon's Randy Wheeler on Supporting Business Needs Within the Entire Insurance Lifecycle

121

CheckFree's Michelle Flint on Enhancing Customer Touch Points to Maximize Business Profitability

122

IMSA's Brian Atchinson and John Dohmen on Compliance Challenges Confronting Insurers

123

Legal eXchange's Karen Fettig on Legal Spend Management Solutions within the Insurance Industry

124

ImageRight's Brian Hardgrove on the Upside of Going Paperless, No Matter the Size of the Company

125

GreatInsuranceJobs.com's Scott Kotroba on Matching Job Seekers to Companies in the Insurance Industry

126

ISO's Karthik Balakrishnan, Beth Fitzgerald and Glenn Meyers on Achieving Success through Predictive Modeling

127

Atlantic Information Systems' Doug Sinclair on Improving Project Performance through Online Training

128

Markel's Mark Nichols on Keeping Health Care Costs Down Through Sensible Plan Choices

129

MedAmerica's Chris Perna on Unique LTC Offering as Worksite Benefit

130

HM Insurance Group's Neal Luchhi on Meeting Needs of Employee Benefit Brokers

131

The Institutes' Peter Miller on New Online Opportunities to Serving Students' Needs

132

SIAA's James Masiello on How Agency, Alliance Success Has Been a Two-Way Street

133

GMAC RE Assistant Vice President Anthony Valente on How the Alternative/Captive Market has Remained Steady in a Soft Market

134

Discover Re Specialty Marketing Group President Blaine Bontempo on the Necessary Ingredients to Forming a Successful Group Captive

135

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Managing Director Andrew Hofer on Servicing Captives' Needs, Regardless of Domicile or Business Type

136

Hawaii Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt on Why Hawaii is a Popular Captive Domicile for U.S. and Pacific Rim Companies

137

Hawaii Captive Insurance Council's President and Director George W. Sumner III on How the "Aloha Spirit" is Attracting Captives to the Domicile

138

South Carolina Captive Insurance Association President Jon Weitzel on How Expansion has Helped the Domicile Mature to Be a Service Provider Haven

139

Gilsbar, Inc's Doug Layman on the Company's Program that Helps Employers Create a Culture of Health to Better Manage Health Care Costs.

140

Life Settlement Providers' Steven Orr on how the Life Settlement Option is Allowing Some to Use Insurance as a Key Cog in their Financial Planning.

141

MetLife's Scott Beck on the Opportunities Employers Have to Boost their Employee Benefits Programs with MultiLife Long-term Care Insurance.

142

SHRM's Bob Carr on the Creative Hiring and Recruiting Strategies Employers Need to Develop.

143

Unum's Mike Simonds Addresses the Need for Good Communications in Managing a Benefits Program.

144

A conversation with Randy Wheeler and Kathy Burns of Aon

145

A conversation with Peter Miller and Beth Sprinkel of the AICPCU

146

A conversation with Chris Zaskes and Darryl Demos of Verint Systems

147

A conversation with Steve Craig and Sean Quillvan of ISO

148

A conversation with Patrick Brandt of Skywire Software

149

A conversation with Sheryl Cox Christenson of Identity Theft 911

150

A conversation with Yogendra Goyal of EXL Service

151

A conversation with Mike Fess of ImageRight

152

A conversation with Brad Burdick of Trumbull Services

153

A conversation with Brian Cohen of Clear Technologies

154

A conversation with Tom Gaillard of Bottomline Technologies

155

A conversation with Craig Bedell of Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Simon Soles of Exclusive Analysis

156

A conversation with Stephen Korow of Decision Research

157

A conversation with Darren Klauser of CSC