The National Flood Insurance Program needs help, says Michael Brown, vice president at Golden Bear Insurance Company, and private insurers can be the ones to help it. In this video, Brown discusses how he thinks the 2017 hurricane season will impact the development of the private flood insurance market.

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The use of technology has been changing the way people buy insurance, but it could also be increasing their exposure, says Blaise D’Antoni, corporate senior vice president with Burns & Wilcox and managing director for Louisiana Operations. In this video, D’Antoni discusses why the diminishing role of the agent isn’t such a good thing post-catastrophe.

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Jacque Schaendorf, president and CEO of Marietta, Ga., based Insurance House, a managing general agency and wholesale brokerage, believes retailers will adapt to changes in relationships, including those driven by artificial intelligence. Here’s what Schaendorf had to say at the recent Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association (WSIA) annual conference.

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It’s not a surprise that Harrison Slaughter, field marketing manager for Fleetmatics, which provides GPS data to improve driver efficiency and safety, believes that technology and the data it provides is key to improving risk management practices in the transportation realm. He also talked about the system his company has created to help rate drivers.

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Speed kills. For every 5 mph increase there’s an 8 percent increase in fatality risk, according to Charles Farmer, vice president in research and statistical services for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Farmer was at a risk management conference in Las Vegas recently to talk about vehicle technology and its effects on the commercial and personal auto markets. But he couldn’t help offering up some stats on his pet peeve: speeding.

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Grant McAllister, the major account representative for ADD Systems, a provider of back office and mobile software for companies in the energy space, talked about ways software can improve risk management practices. Thorough documentation and better record keeping are a few examples he offers.

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Investor funded litigation is changing the playing field in defending litigated insurance claims. Robert Woods, Senior vice president of Claims for Energi Insurance Services, explains why an aggressive response is necessary to combat potentially fraudulent claims.

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