ISC Podcast
Insurance insight, on your schedule.
The ISC Podcast turns our most popular webinars into on-demand episodes — so busy brokers can catch product updates, market insights, and expert training without carving out time for a live session. Each episode delivers the same practical guidance you'd get in an ISC webinar, just in a format you can play during a commute, between meetings, or whenever it fits your day.
New episodes publish regularly, covering the products, trends, and questions brokers ask us most. No sign-up, no live attendance — just listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or right from the ISC website.
Tune in to stay sharp and current.
Episodes
19 episodes
The $250K Generator That Exposed a Cargo Insurance Gap
The first trucker's GL claim Craig Moss ever saw wasn't a crash. A driver said something inappropriate to a receptionist at a loading dock, she filed a complaint, and the claim got paid out under personal and advertising injury. No wheels invol...
NTSB Investigators Keep a Bag Packed by the Door for This Reason
The Key Bridge disaster in Baltimore is usually called a "collision." Technically, it wasn't. A collision is two moving vessels striking each other. What happened in Baltimore was an allision: a moving vessel hitting a stationary object. It's a...
USTR Fees on Chinese-Built Vessels: A Guide for Insurance Brokers
Shipping rates have dropped for 14 straight weeks. That sounds like good news for shippers, and it is, for now. But new USTR fees on Chinese-linked vessels are about to hit, and roughly 45% of the world's bulk carrier fleet is exposed, simply b...
ISC Entertainment (Formerly Abacus): What's Changing for Film Production Insurance
There's one exclusion that came up in nearly every conversation Ashley Gonzalez had with trading partners this year: the unattended vehicle exclusion on production policies. It's finally gone, at least on one of ISC Entertainment's products, an...
ISC Construction Program: Auto-Bind a GL Policy in 15 Minutes
A completed construction GL application, signed through e-sign, can auto-bind on ISC's platform in about 15 minutes. No underwriter has to touch it.In this episode, Ryan Janicki, VP of Construction Programs at ISC (17 years with the comp...
Excess Liability Insurance for Truckers: When $1 Million Isn’t Enough
A trucker scrapes a parked vehicle. The property damage is $2,700. The payout is $1.2 million. That gap between what looks like a fender bender and what a court actually awards is exactly why excess liability exists, and why most truckers don't...
Cruise Ship Insurance Risks: What Underwriters Need to Know About Safety, Health & Emerging Exposures
If a cruise ship suffers a serious medical emergency or mechanical failure in the Arctic or Antarctic, help isn't a quick call away. There's often no salvage tonnage in range, no aircraft or helicopter within reach, and rescue can take days. It...
From TikTok Shoots to Stunt Scenes: ISC's Short-Term Production Program
Most carriers can offer you one of three things: fast short-term coverage, a fully digital quoting process, or stunt coverage. Getting all three from the same market is rare.In this episode, Ashley Gonzalez, VP of Entertainment for ISC E...
War Risk & Marine Insurance: How Global Tensions Disrupt the Supply Chain
A vessel is half-unloaded at a port in Ukraine when it's hit. The cargo still on the ship is covered under the policy's war risk section. The cargo already offloaded onto the pier is not. That line — where coverage starts and stops — is exactly...
PAF Insurance: Protecting Jewelry, Art & Collectibles Beyond Homeowners Coverage
A guy walks into a comic book store, finds a 1938 Superman comic for a dollar, and later sells it for $3.2 million. It's the kind of story that sounds like a fluke — until you realize collectibles are a $360 billion market in the US alone, and ...
Construction General Liability Insurance: Quote & Bind Fast with ISC
No Accords. No email chains. No waiting on an underwriter to open your submission. On ISC's OMGA platform, a construction GL quote can go from a class code to a bound policy in one sitting, and the platform itself is always free to use.I...
Marine General Liability Insurance: The Coverage Marine Contractors Can’t Afford to Get Wrong
A boat manufacturer once got pulled into a major lawsuit because the plate showing maximum passenger capacity was hidden inside the vessel. The boat got overloaded, two passengers ended up in the water, and the court ruled the manufacturer liab...
Hard-to-Place Insurance: How ISC Wholesale Finds Coverage When Standard Markets Say No
An account gets declined on ISC's contractor GL platform. Most brokers would call that the end of the road. At ISC, it's the start of a second submission you never have to type: the app packet routes automatically to the Wholesale team, and in ...
ISC Marine Risk Consulting: Hurricane Season Preparedness
In 1997, Captain Andrew Kinsey was aboard a ship in Guam when Super Typhoon Paka hit: 185 mph sustained winds, 205 mph gusts, 20 inches of rain in a single pass. Decades later, as Head of Marine Risk Consulting at ISC, he's still tracking storm...
How to Quote & Bind Construction Insurance Faster
Most quoting platforms make you choose between fast and thorough. This one's a live, click-by-click look at how ISC does both.In this episode, Ryan Janicki, AVP – Construction Division at ISC, walks through ISC's Construction Program pla...
Production Insurance That Moves at the Speed of Film & TV
Most markets pulled back on insuring weapons and stunts after the Rust set shooting. ISC didn't. And where competitors want five scheduled productions before they'll write an annual policy, ISC only needs two.In this episode, Ashley Gon...
Ghost Policies Explained: Workers' Comp for General Contractors with No Employees
A ghost policy doesn't pay out anything. There's no coverage if someone gets hurt on the job. So why would a contractor need one? Because plenty of jobsites already require proof of workers' comp before you can even step on site, and California...
Contractors Pollution & Professional Liability: The Gap Your Clients Don't Know They Have
Most general liability policies have an absolute pollutant exclusion buried in them, which means your contracting clients could be self-insuring every pollution loss they have and not even know it. A cracked pipe behind a wall leads to mold. A ...
Your Clients' Goods Aren't Covered the Way They Think: ISC's General Marine Cargo Program
A client expects $300,000 after a shipment gets damaged in transit. The check that shows up is for $9,000. Not because of fraud or a coverage dispute, but because the "insurance" baked into their supplier's shipping cost was valuing goods at $3...