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Casualty Lines
6 chapters

The casualty core. GL, excess, auto, WC, products, and medical professional — the foundation of US commercial coverage.

Property Lines
7 chapters

Direct property and the time-element coverages that flow from it. Marine, energy, aviation, and the BI rules that govern recovery.

Specialty & Financial
11 chapters

Claims-made, cyber, management liability, financial lines, environmental, and the bespoke specialty markets.

CHAPTER 14Specialty

Cyber Liability

Privacy liability, breach response, business interruption, cyber extortion, social engineering, and security control questionnaires.

22 min10 sections
CHAPTER 15Specialty

Directors & Officers

Side A, B, and C, the duty of care, the business judgment rule, securities class actions, derivative suits, IPO cycle.

22 min10 sections
CHAPTER 16Specialty

Professional Liability (E&O)

Claims-made mechanics. Retro dates, ERPs, prior acts, misc PL, A&E, lawyers, accountants, tech E&O.

22 min10 sections
CHAPTER 17Specialty

Employment Practices Liability

Wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, third party EPL.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 18Specialty

Fiduciary Liability

ERISA fiduciary duty, plan administration, excessive fee litigation, settlor functions, bundled with D&O and EPL.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 19Specialty

Crime & Fidelity

Employee dishonesty, computer fraud, funds transfer fraud, social engineering. Overlaps with cyber.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 20Specialty

Environmental Liability

Contractor's PL, premises pollution, site-specific PLL, transportation pollution, PFAS loss-cost.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 21Specialty

Surety

Not insurance, even though carriers underwrite it. Contract surety, commercial surety, the three-party structure.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 22Specialty

Kidnap, Ransom & Extortion

A quietly important specialty line, mostly placed in London, with a response service that matters more than the indemnity.

18 min9 sections
CHAPTER 23Specialty

Trade Credit & Political Risk

Buyer default, country risk, expropriation, currency inconvertibility. Where insurance and trade finance overlap.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 24Specialty

Terrorism & TRIA

The federal backstop, certified vs non-certified events, opt-in/opt-out mechanics, stand-alone terrorism market, NBCR exclusions, active assailant.

22 min9 sections
Market Structure
9 chapters

How the market is organized. Brokers, MGAs, Lloyd's, reinsurance, captives, the cycle, and the carrier tiers underneath it all.

CHAPTER 25Market

Market Roles & Distribution

Admitted vs non-admitted, surplus lines, retail and wholesale brokers, MGAs, TPAs, captives, fronting, RRGs.

26 min11 sections
CHAPTER 26Market

Lloyd's & The London Market

Society, Council, Corporation. Names, syndicates, managing agents. Slips, lineslips, binders, coverholders, bordereaux.

26 min11 sections
CHAPTER 27Market

MGAs & Delegated Authority

Binding authority, the pen book, MGAs vs MGUs vs program admins, premium and claims bordereaux, audit-and-oversight.

22 min10 sections
CHAPTER 28Market

Reinsurance Fundamentals

Treaty vs facultative. Proportional vs non-proportional. Quota share, XOL, cat XOL, ILS, cat bonds.

24 min10 sections
CHAPTER 29Market

E&S / Surplus Lines

State-by-state filing variations, the NRRA in detail, export lists, eligibility lists, Lloyd's USA trust funds.

22 min9 sections
CHAPTER 30Market

Brokers: Retail vs Wholesale

The named firms, consolidation history, binding broker, open broker, contingent and supplemental commissions.

22 min9 sections
CHAPTER 31Market

Captives & Self-Insurance

Single parent captives, group captives, RRGs, protected cells. Vermont, Bermuda, Cayman.

22 min9 sections
CHAPTER 32Market

The Insurance Cycle

Hard and soft markets, the capital cycle, capacity dynamics, reinsurance pull, historical cycles, reading the signals that precede a transition.

24 min9 sections
CHAPTER 33Market

Carrier Tiers

Tier 1 global giants through Tier 4 regional specialists, plus the parallel hierarchies of reinsurers, Lloyd's syndicates, and Bermuda carriers. The working map of who writes what.

26 min9 sections
Workflow Foundations
10 chapters

The cross-cutting workflow vocabulary: submissions, claims, ACORD, loss runs, SOV/COPE, rating, regulation, triggers, recovery.

CHAPTER 34Foundations

Underwriting Workflow

Submission intake, clearance, triage, risk evaluation, pricing, quote, bind, issuance. The end-to-end view.

22 min9 sections
CHAPTER 35Foundations

Claims Workflow

FNOL, coverage analysis, liability investigation, damages, reserving, settlement, subrogation.

22 min9 sections
CHAPTER 36Foundations

ACORD Forms & Submissions

125, 126, 130, 137, 140, 25. What each ACORD captures, what the supplementals layer on.

22 min9 sections
CHAPTER 37Foundations

Loss Runs & Loss History

Reading a loss run from any carrier. DOL, reported, paid, reserves, incurred, status. Development, severity flags.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 38Foundations

SOV & COPE

Schedule of values anatomy. TIV, building, contents, BI, location attributes. COPE underwriting.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 39Foundations

Rating & Pricing

Exposure base, manual rate, LCM, experience and schedule modification, credibility theory.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 40Foundations

Treaty Renewals

The 1/1 renewal cycle. The broker pack, what the reinsurer reads, what the cedant produces on deadline.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 41Foundations

Regulation & the NAIC

State-based regulation, NAIC model laws, rate and form filings, market conduct, regulatory friction.

20 min9 sections
CHAPTER 42Foundations

Coverage Triggers

Occurrence vs claims-made, claims-made-and-reported, retroactive dates, ERPs, allocation methods (pro rata, all sums), notice of circumstances.

26 min9 sections
CHAPTER 43Foundations

Subrogation & Salvage

The recovery side of claims. Subrogation rights, anti-subrogation rule, waivers, salvage mechanics, recovery vendors, inter-carrier arbitration.

20 min8 sections
Industry Verticals
8 chapters

How coverage assembles around an industry. Construction, healthcare, real estate, transportation, manufacturing, energy, tech.

Global Markets
3 chapters

Outside the US: Canada, UK retail, the EU under Solvency II.

The Carrier Lens
4 chapters

For people working with carriers. The tech stack, KPIs, buyer personas, AI regulation.