Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Kelly Thomson, Partner is RPC's employment team and they discuss the top three employment issues for insurers in 2025

In this episode we cover:

• The right to disconnect.
• Nuances between different countries implementation of the right to disconnect.
• The evolving DEI landscape.
• The workplace as a safe haven for vulnerable employees.
• The gender balance and equality landscape.
• Changes the new Employee Rights Bill will have in the UK.

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by John Lane, and they discuss the Piper Alpha disaster of 1988.

In this episode we cover:

• What Piper Alpha was.
• What happened in 1988.
• The impact the disaster had on society.
• The role insurance played in the aftermath.
• The impact the Piper Alpha disaster had on safety regulation on this type of platform.
• How this disaster shaped the future of insurance.

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In the first episode of season 6, Peter is joined by Crispin Halsall, and in this episode they discuss all things forever chemicals and PFAS.

In this episode we cover:

• What is meant by the term Forever Chemicals and PFAS.
• Why PFAS are called forever chemicals
• The extent of PFAS contamination. (Every human has trace amounts of PFAS in their body).
• What regulators can do to tackle this problem.
• Expected PFAs claims volumes are set to increase.
• What the future of PFAs looks like

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this special Christmas episode Peter is joined by an ensemble cast of insurance experts to discuss the insurance of the core elements of Christmas, from the tree and the presents under it, to the turkey and wine enjoyed at the dinner table.

The guests include:

• Gordon Steward - the insurance of Christmas trees.        
• Angus Withington KC - the insurance of presents.
• Toby Behrmann - the insurance of wine.
• Camilla Curry - the insurance of turkeys.      
• Alex Nott - the insurance of vegetables.
• Jonathan Kelly - the insurance of cheese.
• Alexandra Richards - the insurance of Whiskey.     

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Tom Wilde, CEO of Indico Data and in this episode they discuss the importance of having high quality data.

In this episode we cover:

• The importance of good data for making informed decisions in insurance.
• The role of AI in revolutionising data processing and making data more useable and accessible.
• The need for insurers to leverage better data for competitive advantage.
• The importance of having a data strategy in place.
• How good data can positively impact insurance (underwriting decisions, reserving).

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Caroline Bell, Head of Wordings at QBE. In this episode they discuss all things policy wordings.

In this episode we cover:

• The drafting of insurance policies.
• The importance of avoiding ambiguity.
• The structure of traditional insurance policies.
• The differences with parametric insurance policies.
• Potential skill shortages in the wordings market.
• The extent to which AI can help with policy drafting.

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Joe Dutton, Energy Innovation Lead, at AXIS and in this episode they discuss a recent report Joe co-wrote, Navigating Risk in the Energy Transition.

In this episode we cover:

• The key findings of the report.
• Climate change as a driver of change and a source of risk.
• Whether the deployment of renewables is accelerating despite challenges.
• How insurance can play a strategic role in energy transition.

You can read the full report here

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Trevor Maynard, Senior Insurance Advisor at Insurtech Sotera and Vice Chair and Executive Director at Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies. In this episode they discuss systemic risks.

In this episode we cover:

• What systemic risk actually is.
• Recent examples of systemic risks in todays society.
• How the definition of systemic risk has changed over the years.
• The 4 reports written by the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies and Lloyds of London on: volcanoes, economic stagnation, climate and cyber.

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by

In this episode we cover:

• The work Value.Space is involved in.
• The monitoring and risk assessment of assets from space.
• How insurers can use Value.Space.
• The future for satellite-based assistance for insurers

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Welcome to Insurance Covered, the podcast that covers everything insurance. In this episode Peter is joined by Rachel Delhaise, Head of Sustainability at Convex Insurance. In this episode they discuss her role as Head of Sustainability and what that means for insurance.

In this episode we cover:

• What is meant by sustainability in the context of an insurance company.
• What Rachel's role entails.
• The different ways sustainability can be measured.
• How sustainability goals have changed over the years.
• What is meant by the protection gap and how that impacts sustainability.
• The Convex Seascape survey.

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