To be honest, I can’t believe we haven’t answered this age-old question.
What is an Insurance Nerd?
In this video, I sum it up in one word. Although that would make for an awfully short video, no?
There are so many factors that go into making an insurance nerd, but I really think it all comes back to one word.
After checking out my answer, we’d love to hear from you.
Are you an Insurance Nerd?
What makes you that Nerd?
If you’ve ever seen one of my videos, you have most certainly heard me talking about this.
Telling our stories.
Talking about all the great things, not only across insurance, but specifically in Claims.
All too often Claims gets a tough reputation. But it’s not because we haven’t done our part to help so many folks through some of their toughest times.
No.
It’s because the people that tend to share their experiences are the people that have had a less than ideal experience.
So why can’t we do our part to better control the way people perceive us? And talk about all of the great things we see day in and day out in our roles.
To help us take up this journey during this episode of The Insurance Nerdery, I bring in my friends Steve Harvill of Creative Ventures, Jim Halpert of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, and Shakira of…well, she’s Shakira, isn’t that enough?
I was tagged in a LinkedIn post the other day where the individual was talking about what they saw as the most common complaint in Claims:
I can never reach my adjuster
Or
My adjuster never answers the phone
Well I know I’ve heard that many times throughout my career as well. But I think I may shock you when I say, Adjusters shouldn’t answer the phone.
Hey, take it easy…you haven’t even watched the video yet to see why I say that.
After you watch this episode of The Insurance Nerdery, I think you’ll agree with me. And so will Carl Van, Bob Lessard, Mathew Allen, Adam Painter & Chris Stanley.
I happened to catch The Most Interesting Man in Insurance in the insurance wild. He was releasing his book, The End of Insurance As We Know It, at the Insurance Library Association of Boston.
While on my insurance safari, Rob Galbraith spoke with Nick Lamparelli about some major themes in his book. Then he opened to the audience for any questions.
During audience participation, Dan Findley of the Andover Companies showed that even carriers that have centuries of experience are looking to the future when he asked Rob:
What should incumbent carriers be thinking (read: worried about) when it comes to new insurtechs entering the marketplace?
Rob gives us a couple of non-insurance examples in his response. And you’ll be surprised when he says the time to worry is not when the insurtechs are doing what the carriers are doing. But something else.
We were able to capture this moment of the Q & A in this episode of The Insurance Nerdery.
We’ve all heard that there’s a perception problem in insurance.
Well even within insurance there are perceptions that can be improved.
I know there are people that when they hear “Claims” they automatically think, they’re going to try and deny.
And from the other side, the mere mention of “Bill Wilson” sends shivers up the spine, as he’ll try to get EVERYTHING covered.
So when Bill was giving a couple of presentations at the IIARI Annual Convention, I knew we had to sit down and chat.
I was able to capture some of our conversation in this episode of The Insurance Nerdery.