InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

Beyond the headlines: revealing the stories behind the insurance news (277)

Dec 3, 2023

Experts discuss exciting news topics in the insurance industry, such as Ki Insurance's new partnerships, the wide range of loss estimates from Hurricane Otis, and Howden Group's insurtech ventures fund. They also explore the shift from disruption to collaboration in the industry, the size and risks of wind turbines, and the potential of digitizing insurance policy wordings. The episode wraps up with a potential invite, commercial break, and call for listener input.

Ask episode

Chapters

Transcript

Episode notes

Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Excitement for Industry News and Innovations

01:35 • 9min

Revolutionizing the Insurance Market with Key

10:39 • 8min

The Shift from Disruption to Collaboration in the Insurance Industry

18:37 • 13min

Comparing the Size and Risks of Wind Turbines to Well-Known Buildings

31:41 • 2min

Digitizing Insurance Policy Wordings

33:18 • 5min

Wrapping up the episode with a potential invite, commercial break, and call for listener input

38:25 • 2min

We’re piloting a new style of podcast this week and borrowing the InsTech podcast channel to test this out.

If you are wondering what is going on behind the news items you read about in insurance or technology then this new podcast is for you. We’re bringing together experts, founders, insurers and some well know figures to tell us the news items that are capturing their attention - and why.

Matthew Grant CEO of InsTech is joined face to face in London by fellow podcasting enthusiast Nigel Walsh, Managing Director, Insurance, Google Cloud US, James Birch, Development Director at Ki Insurance and Bijal Patel, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aurora Insurance.

And we’ve got more. This week we have an interview with the CEO of Ki Insurance Mark Allan, a listener question and a chance to hear our hosts and guests predictions for 2024.

The news we’re discussing this week is:

Ki insurance new capacity partners Travelers and Aspen
Why the range of loss estimates from Hurricane Otis is so high
Howden Group £500m insurtech ventures fund

Look out for more in this new podcast series coming in 2024. Please let us know what questions you’d like our hosts and guests to answer and any new ideas to keep you listening.

If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn.

To find out more about InsTech, our membership and offerings visit www.instech.co or contact us hello@instech.co

Continuing Professional Development

This InsTech Podcast Episode is accredited by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards your CPD scheme.

By the end of this podcast, you should be able to meet the following Learning Objectives:

Identify the capacity for innovation in insurance
Explain why MGAs are the future
Summarise reasons for collaboration and data sharing

If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 277 page of the InsTech website or email cpd@instech.co to let us know you have listened to this podcast.

To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.