In this episode, our host Dru Corfield is joined by special guest Ed Pocock, Head of Cyber Security at Gallagher Re, to discuss perspectives on AI from the cyber security point of view.

Topics discussed include:

• What are the challenges with insuring against cyber security risks? 
• What does AI coverage within insurance policies entail?
• How can companies protect themselves against the growing threat of AI-generated deepfake fraud?
• Do policyholders see AI as posing a greater risk or a greater benefit?

In this episode, our host Dru Corfield has a conversation with Alexandra Matthews, Underwriter for AI Performance Risks at Munich Re, about its Insure AI product.
 
 Topics discussed include:

• Insure AI, Munich Re’s AI Insurance offering
• How companies can effectively safeguard against recurring issues, such as algorithmic bias, when using Generative AI
• The biggest challenges companies face when implementing AI solutions
• A look towards the future of AI, and the opportunities for growth and innovation

Our host Dru Corfield is joined by special guest Dr Joanne Cracknell, Director of Risk at WTW, to discuss perspectives on AI from a risk and compliance point of view.

This episode covers:

• Recent Advances in AI Regulation
• How can international companies cope with the evolving regulations around AI in different jurisdictions?
• Advice for law firms on safeguarding against privacy violations of their client’s data when deploying generative AI.
• Addressing Algorithmic Bias: Practical suggestions to reduce bias and avoid unintentional breaches of the Equality Act 2010.
• Unpacking the AI “Black Box”
• Examining whether overreliance on generative AI could undermine trust in the legal profession or the broking community
• The Government’s Stance on AI

In this episode, Associate Dru Corfield is joined by special guest Shannan Fort, International Cyber Product Leader at Marsh to discuss perspectives on AI from the cyber insurance market point of view.

Topics discussed include:

• What are policyholders asking about in terms of AI coverage in their cyber policies?  
• What are policyholders main concerns?  
• Thoughts on AI losses being covered by cyber policies
• What might an ‘AI loss’ look like?  
• How is the insurance market defining AI in policies?  

Our host Dru Corfield talks to special guest George Hilton, a Barrister at Monckton Chambers about perspectives on AI from the legal and professional negligence point of view. 

This episode covers:

• The intersection of AI, law and professional indemnity insurance.
• How and why might a professional be held responsible for acting upon erroneous advice given by GenAI? 
• The Bolam Test and how it might apply to a professional using AI
• Would the test for standard of care change if AI was being used by an insurance broker?
• In the future would it be negligent for lawyers and brokers to not use AI in the course of their work?
• AI Judges

Our host Alex Rosenfield talks to Paul Mills, Product Development Manager of WTW Networks, about how to get property claims paid.

Our host Jonathan Corman talks to guests HH Judge Davis-White QC and Hugh Evans, Barrister at 4 New Square, about why litigants lose cases they expect to win.

In this episode we cover the following: 

• Whether litigants ever fight cases to trial for reasons other than that seeming the least bad option.  
• To what extent cases get to trial because solicitors/counsel want that, rather than the client.
• To what extent can you tell in advance that the outcome of a particular trial would depend on the identity of the trial judge (e.g. “pro-claimant” or “pro-defendant” judges; or judges who are more deferential to precedent than others).
• What recent insurance developments have been Good, Bad or Ugly for policyholders 

Our host Daniel Robin talks to special guest Will Healy, Senior Associate at Kennedys about perspectives from the policyholder and insurer sides of the market.

In this episode we cover the following:

• Does the Insurance market operate effectively and fairly for policyholders?
• How the Insurance market can be improved for the benefit of both Insurers and policyholders?
• BI claims
• What Will thinks is Good, Bad or Ugly for policyholders in relation to Covid BI litigation

In this episode, our host David Pryce welcomes special guest Rob Jacobs, Partner at Blank Rome to discuss hot insurance issues from the US.

Rob represents policyholders in a wide array of insurance recovery disputes arising from product liabilities, toxic torts, first-party property loss, business interruption, advertising liability, professional liability, kidnap and ransom losses, and various directors and officers-related liabilities, to name a few.

This week, our host David Pryce welcomes one of the US’ preeminent mediators, Jeff Kichaven, to discuss Mediating Coverage Disputes.

Jeff has a widely known and respected mediation practice and regularly assists parties in coming to a settlement in complex insurance disputes. His unique approach to mediation guides lawyers and clients toward the clear, focused decision-making, from which settlements naturally follow. Jeff is an Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.