Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Seth Williams of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) which is also their topic for discussion.

In this episode we discuss:

• Who the ABI are and why they were formed
• What their role in the insurance market is
• The work they are doing in the area of climate change
• The role the ABI and the insurance industry can play in relieving climate change pressure
• How they work with similar organisations across the world

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by returning guest Tom Johansmeyer, Head of Porperty Claims services at Verisk. In this episode they discuss and try to answer the following question: 'Is cyber insurance in crisis?'.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is typically covered in a cyber policy
• The three main categories of loss in a cyber policy
• Why Tom sees 2017 as a critical year for cyber insurance
• Expected growth of the cyber insurance market over the next five years
• Reasons why cyber insurance may be considered to be in crisis
• What can be done to rectify the issues currently affecting the cyber market

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Julian Richardson, CEO of Parhelion Underwriting and our topic for this episode is sustainable insurance.

In this episode we discuss:

• Who Parhelion are
• Why they decided to launch the worlds first fully sustainable insurer and how they plan to do it
• ESG as a driving force for change
• Insurance as a 'great enabler' for sustainable change
• The impact Parhelion hope to have over the next 20 years

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Welcome to Season 3 of Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In our first episode of the year Peter is joined by Carl Carter, UK Country CEO at CPP Group UK and our topic for this episode is parametric insurance and its applications in travel insurance.

In this episode we discuss:

• What parametric insurance is
• Why it parametric cover pairs so well with travel
• How travel insurance has become a form of embedded insurance in some package holidays
• Current themes in the travel insurance market
• How travel insurance has evolved over the last 20 years
• Expected developments in parametric travel insurance in the future

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Andy Bord, CEO of Flood Re, a specialist UK reinsurer of flood risks. In this episode we will be discussing all things Flood Re, including:

• Why Flood Re was formed
• What is the goal of Flood Re
• Does it achieve what it sets out to
• Examples of how Flood Re works in practice
• Climate change and ESG, how that impacts Flood Re and their operation
• Why Flood Re is set to close in 2039

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Craig Turnbull, Senior Technical Specialist at the Bank of England, and our topic is the birth of modern life assurance. Craig has a long background in the actuarial space and has even written a book called A History of British Actuarial Thought in which he discusses, amongst other things, the development that led to the creation of Equitable Life and the birth of modern life assurance, which is what we discuss on this episode.

In this episode we discuss:

• What life assurance looked like in the 1700s compared to what we know it as in the present.
• How statistics and probability theory helped develop modern life assurance
• The role James Dodson and the idea of a lifetime policy played in modern life assurance
• How Equitable Life was founded using Dodson's ideas in 1762
• How life assurance has developed in the years since

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Will Bloomer, Chief Corporate & Legal Affairs Officer at Howden Group and we will be discussing the role of an in-house lawyer in the insurance market.

In this episode we discuss:

• What an in-house legal role entails
• Key differences between a private practice lawyer and in-house counsel.
• Will's current role at Howden Group

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Welcome to Insurance Covered. In this episode Peter is joined by Sarah Kocianski, Strategic Insight Lead at Founders Factory, an accelerator that invests in FinTech and InsurTech start ups. In this episode Sarah gives us an introduction to InsurTech and its different uses in the market.

In this episode we look at:

• What is meant by the term InsurTech, jargon terms and what it means
• Uses of InsurTech (e.g. pricing risks contract creation & process improvement)
• Embedded insurance & parametric insurance
• How InsurTech has changed insurance
• The current InsurTech market and what comes next

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Welcome to Insurance Covered. In this episode our guest is Paul Miller, Senior Consultant at HFG Insurance Recruitment, and we will be discussing the sinking of the Titanic from an insurance perspective.  

In this episode we look at:

·        A historical background to the Titanic

·        Insurance claims coming from the construction of the Titanic

·        Insurance claims and pay-out resulting from the sinking

·        The impact the sinking had on the insurance industry

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Welcome to Insurance Covered. In this episode our guest is Karen Graves, Chief Operating Officer at Inigo Insurance and we will be discussing what goes into creating an insurer.

In this episode we look at:

• Who Inigo are, what they do and the overall structure of their operation.
• Karen's role as COO.
• The stages of setting up Inigo, from initial concept to open for business.
• The story behind the name 'Inigo'.
• How the COVID-19 pandemic affected Inigo.
• Plans for the future.

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