Trey and Brandon break down a New Jersey ruling that's putting the D&O "capacity exclusion" back in the spotlight — what happens when a board member accused of wrongdoing sits on multiple boards, and why insurers can deny coverage if the alleged conduct ties back to a different company. They also cover a reinsurance 101 for producers: what reinsurance actually is, the difference between treaty and facultative coverage, who the major players are (Munich Re, Swiss Re, Lloyd's, the Bermuda market), and why retail brokers should care about reinsurance pricing even though they never touch that market directly.

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In this episode, Trey Shields sits down with David Cooper, who built his own risk purchase group (RPG) focused on public entity transit programs after entering insurance at 44. They also get into his journey through Larry Linne"s IncitePerformance Group and Million Dollar Challenge, hitting $2M+ in seven years, and what keeps him grounded outside of insurance.

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In this episode, Micah explains how producers can avoid being backed into a corner to quote by aggressive and closed-minded insureds without starting a fight or caving to their request.

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In this episode, Trey sits down with David Foster, producer and principal of Three Arbor Insurance in Birmingham, AL, to break down the exact qualifying process his team uses to protect their time and win more of the deals worth winning.

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An OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox, hacked Hugging Face using a zero-day nobody had ever documented, and executed 17,000 autonomous actions in under two days, before OpenAI even knew it happened. Then Anthropic disclosed three similar incidents. Then Meta.

In this Monday Brief, Trey sits down with Brandon Schuh to break down the latest news, trends, and insights in ProducerLand.

- What's going on with AI models breaking out and the #1 question to ask your insureds

- Why the E&S market is flush with capacity and getting cheaper

- American Family's $1.2B acquisition of Bowhead, and what it signals

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In this episode, Micah and Trey sit down with Colby Allen, an M&A advisor, valuation and exit planning consultant. Colby deep dives on the current state of compensation, valuations, and perpetuation, but from the producer side of things. They talk post-acquisition golden handcuffs, how lift-outs actually get done, what it really means to vest into your book.

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In this episode, Micah and Trey pick up where they left off last time with industry expert Larry Linne. Larry shares how top insurance producers can 2x, 3x, and even 4x their current book of business.

Grab your seat to Larry's Elite Producer Training, October 28–29, in Denver, CO, at The Gaylord below:

👉 https://www.incitepg.com/elite-producer-training

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In this episode, Brandon breaks down what the Willis Towers Watson vs. Brown & Brown AI spending war really means underneath the headlines.

Also on the show:

👉 Corgi under the microscope: tech-forward insurtech or risk retention group with a wig?

👉 Man vs. machine underwriting: the case for human relationships in insurance business

👉 Selling against the AI-first players: Brandon's take on differentiation through deep specialization

👉 Credit default swaps make a comeback: breakdown of rising private credit risk in AI/data-center debt

In this episode, Trey and Micah sit down with J Foster, a 20-year veteran and Top Producer, to unpack the real debate between networking and cold outbound, and how to actually build a 30-year career instead of just surviving the first three.

Jay also opens up about his executive coaching journey, how mastering "energy management" transformed his business, and the lifestyle decision that changed his life for good.

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