HSB's New Ways of Thinking

Cost continues to be an ongoing challenge as we work with P&C carriers. But the role of the agent is extremely important and we are continuing to learn about the role of the agent as technology and insurance become more closely aligned. Listen to ongoing challenges and opportunities HSB is seeing within technology and insurance.

Carriers are waking up and taking notice to the impact and cost of electrical fires to personal lines coverage. While Ting can't prevent all fires, it can see about 80 - 85% of potential home fires. Hear how Ting continue to provide unique insights within the home and how HSB continues to see ongoing success with the Ting program!

Fiona's love of kickboxing made her a popular and well-paid influencer on social media. Hear how cyber insurance helps her fight back when she discovers cybercriminals have taken over all her online accounts, threatening to destroy all she has built.

In 2022 there were over 18 separate weather disasters that resulted in over one billion dollars in insurance losses. HSB's sensor program has proven to alert and minimize risk to policyholders – saving insureds and P&C carries significant dollars.    Hear how HSB continues to learn new insights that are bringing useful solutions to other carriers - in an effort to avoid another billion dollar year...

We're sensing trouble. When water begins leaking above a museum's vault where millions of dollars of artifacts are stored, you need to move fast. Find out in this podcast what tipped off museum personnel to the leak and its obscure location.    This podcast and its contents are intended for illustrative purposes only. HSB does not make or provide any guarantees that the performances of its IoT ser...

 SPAN has the power to identify potential issues in the home and notify a homeowner before there is a loss or damage done to the home. This is a paradigm shift for homeowners and the insurance industry and is focusing on the predict and prevent mindset. Listen to Colin Law, VP Strategy and Business Development discuss some of the benefits SPAN can bring to a homeowner. 

The home electrical panel hasn't substantially changed in over 70 years, but homeowners continue to add more devices plugging in with a need for an increase of electricity. Additionally, many homeowners are transitioning to solar, EV cars and other environmental friendly technology. This is where SPAN, a San Francisco-based company has reimagined the home electrical panel to prepare homes for elec...

Smart electrical panels are the wave of the future. Colin Law, VP of Strategy and Business Development at SPAN, a San Francisco-based company has reimagined the home electrical panel to prepare homes for electrification reliance related to solar panels, home battery systems, electrical vehicle charging stations, and future home electrical needs. Listen to gain new insights into the new world of ho...

Learn about what HELIXintel has done to modernize equipment and maintenance tracking, bringing it into the 21st century. And with the speed of equipment acceleration plus the amount of new and changing equipment that building owners are dealing with, it's no surprise this digital platform is transforming the Equipment Breakdown insurance landscape. 

HELIXintel finding way to pass on savings and find value in different ways when equipment and replacement parts are needed. Hear how they are making that happen!

Curious what equipment tracking and small to midsize business owners have in common? Not sure what the manufacturing eco system is and how it can help move facilities managers away from traditional paper and pen processes? Listen to this episode to hear from Jon Dewald, CEO of HELIXintel.

Learn about an exciting HSB partnership with HELIXintel, a digital workspace for building and equipment operators that provides access to an online platform offering the next generation of building equipment, tracking and managing equipment supply needs. 

Listen in to learn how HSB and Inspectify are partnering together to evolve the needs of a homeowner. Also hear how the future of inpsectify may rapidly change and encourage homeowners to become their own home inspectors? This concept might be closer than you think.

Data is gold and the insights you can get from data could unlock new opportunity in different ways. Learn about how Inspetify sees the power of data potentially being leveraged in new and powerful ways.

What does inspections and insurance have in common? Listen to this episode where Josh Jensen provides a clear connection between home inspections and the insurance market and how this innovative space continues to evolve for better efficiencies to the consumer and the insurance carrier.

Understand how a proprietary software, a robust network of inspectors are going to change the future of home inspections and ultimately create an "Uber" for inspections. Listen to HSB's conversation with Josh Jensen, Co-founder and CEO of Inspectify.

Inspectify is a Seattle based start-up that provides a vertically integrated property inspection platform in today's climate of unpredictable real estate markets, evolving interest rates, uncertain inflation, and hybrid work environments. Hear from Josh Jensen, co-founder and CEO of Inspectify and learn how he is rethinking the traditional inspection market into a robust network of thousands of in...

New York Times bestselling author, Marcus Buckingham, explains that it is not about teaching individuals to be well-rounded, but its more about ways to get the entire team to be well-rounded. He also explains what WYRD is and how this noun is defined as individual uniqueness.

Learning is work, raising a child is work, community is work.. anything you are doing to create value is work. Love and work is about how do you find what you love in what you do. New York Times bestselling author, Marcus Buckingham talks to us about all things work and how people can find love in work they do.

Work can be nourishing and a connection between you and the things you love. Hear from world renown researcher, New York Times bestselling author, and psychometrician Marcus Buckingham. Marcus has spent years focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. His latest book entitled, Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and...

Todd was enjoying a great round of golf when it started. First, one tenant called. Then another. And then, another. Between the 6 th and 9 th holes, every tenant in his apartment building had called. In this podcast you'll hear how having the right Equipment Breakdown coverage helped this commercial building owner cool down tenants quickly.

Guests in a beautiful, family-owned boutique hotel started their day in a not so pleasant way – which could have resulted in an ugly scenario for the hotel owner. Hear how having the right Equipment Breakdown coverage helped keep guests comfortable.

Every table was booked at a trendy restaurant. All was running smoothly until the lights flickered then went out. Find out how the right Equipment Breakdown coverage helped this restaurant resume serving their customers.

Our new normal includes increasing threats from all kinds of coastline and inland flooding and wildfires. Here and abroad. Ernst Rauch, climate change and geo scientist with Munich Re gives  an insider's view of the causes and concerns of these evolving risks that defy our historical understanding.

In this next climate change episode, we continue an insightful conversation with climate change expert Ernst Rauch of Munich Re and Jeff O'Shaughnessy of HSB to talk about the connection between higher catastrophe losses and climate change. The upward trends in both costs and catastrophic event severity show a clear picture on a global scale. But there are some bright spots.