The buzz around descheduling has been growing louder as the elections near. The subject has been side-barred over political quarreling over the years, but just what it means for people who specialize in cannabis has never been more important. We spoke with Shauna Blackburn, cannabis team leader at Blitz Insurance, about what rescheduling would mean for the specialty.

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On June 27, the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection held a hearing titled, “Sector Down: Ensuring Critical Infrastructure Resilience.”  Members of the critical infrastructure sector and insurers were in attendance as witnesses to give testimony. In this episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast, three experts engage in a post-hearing discussion about critical infrastructure resilience and cyber risk, where the insurance industry can improve gaps in coverage, and what this all means for small and mid-sized businesses as well as larger firms. Hear from Matthew McCabe, managing director for Guy Carpenter’s Cyber Center of Excellence, Jack Kudale, Founder and CEO of InsurTech Cowbell, and Jillian Raines, partner at Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna.

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Join Golfertainment George and the Florida Insurance Men as they mix golf puns, hot sauce challenges, and insurance tips for a hole-in-one experience!

Hot Sauce Challenge: Tune in to see George take on the hot sauce challenge every time someone makes a golf pun. It’s a spicy, hilarious ride!

Insurance Tips: Learn from Kevin and Patrick about unique and humorous ways to insure your golf gear, from cyber insurance to accidental damage.

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#Golfertainment #HotSauceChallenge #InsuranceFun

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Learn strategies for encouraging all employees to embrace AI, regardless of their role and discover real-world examples of how AI tools, like ChatGPT, are saving time and enhancing productivity in HR. Check out this excerpt from the latest Insuring Cyber Podcast as Elizabeth Blosfield takes a look back at an interview from Between the Lines.”  In this episode of “Between the Lines,” Erica Wood, Chief People Officer at Insurtech Cover Whale, shares how AI is transforming HR processes. To listen to the full episode of this podcast episode, click here! To watch the full episode of “Between the Lines”, click here!

#AIinHR #TechInnovation

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Most agents and brokers do a great job for customers. But guess what? They’re licensed professionals—and like all professionals, they can get sued. That’s not fun. On this recording, we hear from Amanda Juratovic, who oversees the Big “I” E&O program for association members. Listen as she outlines large and growing E&O issues around agency aggregators, M&A, consumer “promises” in marketing, AI, the hard market, and carrier solvency. Each of these industry challenges is a landmine of potential legal actions against agencies. Amanda has seen it all and provides excellent, simple advice for principals and their teams. Listen up, agents: Get smarter and cleaner about your operations and business practices!

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In this episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast, take a look back at an interview with Erica Wood, chief people officer at InsurTech Cover Whale, about how artificial intelligence is being used in HR processes in insurance to move the workforce forward. This interview originally published in an episode of Carrier Management’s Between the Lines video series.

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Explore how IoT is revolutionizing the insurance industry by enhancing risk prevention and fostering a more proactive approach to customer care. 📊 To watch the full interview with Bob Pick of Tokio Marine Group and host Elizabeth Blosfield, click here to watch episode 88!  🚀

Risk Prevention Focus: IoT technology shifts insurance from risk transfer to proactive risk prevention, reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.

#IoT #Insurance #RiskPrevention

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Discover how seasoned investor, Jared Kaplan, founded groundbreaking companies, including Indigo, by merging online distribution and AI to revolutionize the medical malpractice insurance industry. 🤖 Click here to watch the full episode of the Insuring Cyber Podcast!

Some key points:

AI in Lending — Pioneering the use of artificial intelligence at OppFi to assess nonprime borrowers and provide essential financing.🌐

#Innovation #AI #Insurance #Entrepreneurship

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Independent agency owner Tiago Prado might challenge your thinking, because he is challenging the industry’s status quo. 🤔💡 Listen as he unpacks a fascinating yet traumatic family story from his upbringing in Brazil, to dealing with gangs near Boston, to a winding journey through school and construction work. 🇧🇷 🏫 The struggle was worth it, Tiago says. He outlines how agency physical stores with longer day, evening and Saturday hours as well as 24/7 online multilingual service are keys for underserved prospects and policyholders. The strong growth of bilingual consumers and businessowners in America present an excellent opportunity. And Tiago’s firm BRZ Insurance is going after it. Tiago and his 152 associates—with an average age of 25 years—are building for the future with multiple retail offices, AI-supported service tools, sophisticated marketing, and multiple languages to meet customers where they are. “Bilingual marketing today is not an option anymore. It’s mandatory.”

#IndependentAgent #InsuranceIndustry #BusinessOwner #Inclusion

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There’s no question the rapid pace of technological advancement is shaping the insurance industry, how how are insurers using tech tools to help with their business? Jared Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of InsurTech risk retention group, Indigo, joined The Insuring Cyber Podcast to discuss how tech innovation is shaping the medical professional liability insurance space.💡 🩺 🏥   Later in the episode, Bob Pick, executive vice president and chief information officer at Tokio Marine North America and group deputy chief information technology officer for Tokio Marine Group, discussed the most recent technological developments he’s excited about in insurance and how the internet of things is presenting an important opportunity for insurers. Check it out!

#TechnologyTools #AI #IoT

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