ABOUT THIS 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.
Average audio length:
22 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
29 episodes
since Aug. 4, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Captain Andrew Kinsey, ISC Marine's loss control specialist, covers lithium-ion battery risk from two angles: underwriting cargo shipments containing lithium batteries, and safe use and handling once devices are already in the field. He starts with the distinction that matters for classificati…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Wendy Nowosiadly, SVP of Underwriting, who launched ISC's Excess for Everything program in 2020 alongside the primary contractors programs, and Mike York, who joined this year to expand the program beyond New York (where more than 80% of current premium comes from), cover how the excess progra…
Captain Andrew Kinsey, ISC Marine's loss control specialist and a former risk engineer on nuclear waste treatment projects at Hanford and Savannah River, gives a global tour of nuclear power's current state and where new reactor technology is heading. He opens with the basics that make nu…
Marq, an underwriter with ISC Marine (three years underwriting cargo at Allianz, then a decade as a national cargo broker at Willis before joining ISC), walks through general cargo — also called general marine cargo or ocean cargo, though the name is a holdover from when international commerce move…
Ashley Gonzalez (VP, Entertainment) and Deanna Allen (AVP, Entertainment) close out the year with a rundown of ISC Entertainment's special event program, timed for the stretch of galas, parades, and New Year's Eve parties that keep brokers busiest. ISC Entertainment, formerly Abacus, has …
Most shipping containers that leave a US port for Asia go back completely empty. It's a simple, visible symptom of the US trade deficit, and just one of several ripple effects Captain Andrew Kinsey walks through in this installment of ISC's ongoing tariff series.
Kinsey covers the UN&apos…
There's a tariff penalty on the books right now that Customs and Border Protection cannot reduce, waive, or negotiate under any circumstances: a flat 40% ad valorem charge, applied the moment CBP determines a shipment was rerouted specifically to dodge duties.
In this episode, Captain Andrew K…
A sports bar with a full entertainment setup and security on staff? Fine. Add a dance floor, and it's a decline. It's the kind of specific, learned-the-hard-way underwriting nuance that only comes from decades in one niche.
In this episode, Peter Kuchan, VP of Underwriting for ISC's …
A Hull policy is a named-perils form, not an all-risk one, but it can pay out up to four times its face value once collision liability, suing and labor, and salvage charges are factored in. A $100,000 policy can mean up to $400,000 in actual protection.
In this episode, John Kiernan, who leads ISC&…
The US doesn't have a single licensed manufacturer of slow-speed diesel engines, the engine type that powers nearly every large merchant vessel on the planet. It's one of several reasons a ship that costs $10 million to build overseas can cost closer to $100 million to build in an America…
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