Contracts are complicated and people sign them in their businesses without fully understanding their implications. Contracts often have insurance requirements and those requirements must be complied with. Join us as Joseph Junfola helps us to understand contractual indemnity and the additional insured.

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When you're dealing with a disputed claim, one way that the dispute can be handled is by mediation. Join us as Winter Wheeler helps us to to understand her Four Cornerstones process.

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When most of us think about the CGL policy, we usually think about bodily injury and property damage. We all understand that there's more to it than that, but that's what we immediately think about.

Join us as we take apart Coverage A in this session. We plan to look at several exclusions and look for ways to deal with those exclusions.

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You already know about Bitcoin and Ethereum, but how well do you know blockchain? No, it's not another cryptocurrency, it's the technology behind crypto. It's also the technology that underlies smart contracts and could be part of the future of insurance and risk management. Join us as Martin Frappolli helps us to understand blockchain and its impact on insurance.

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In this conversation, Academy Director of Education, Patrick Wraight is joined by Friend of the Academy, Casey Roberts. The topic? Endorsements.
We get a look into the minds of these two insurance nerds as they discuss and debate their favorite (and least favorite) commercial property endorsements.
This is certain to be appointment viewing as they discuss endorsements and take your questions.

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What's in a name? Much and in many ways, especially if that name is risk manager and you're really not one.

Join us as Chris Burand helps agents idea that they are probably not risk managers and why it's important that they avoid calling themselves such.

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This class is geared to the insurance executive that wants a solid understanding of the direction of the current business cycle. What is the financial health of the US P&C industry? Are we headed into a hard market or a soft market?

Join us as David Paul helps us to understand the financial wellbeing of the P&C market. This is a must-see class if you're an insurance executive, or want to be.

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Is it possible that there will be self-driving (autonomous) vehicles on our roads soon?

It's not only possible, it's happening now. Varying degrees of autonomous vehicles are traveling down the highways around us. From the car that can keep itself from drifting out of lanes to the car that uses radar to match the speed of the slower moving vehicle in front of it to the fully autonomous vehicles that are being tested on roads in cities all around the United States, autonomous vehicles are here.

Join us as Brenda Wells helps us to understand the state of autonomous vehicles and their insurance implications.

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Your clients are signing contracts more often than you ever wanted to know. Many of those contracts come with insurance requirements. Some request indemnification. Others are asking to add the other party as an additional insured on your client's liability policies.

• What is an additional insured?


• Why would someone want to be an additional insured?


• Why would you add someone as an additional insured?


• What does it really mean to be an additional insured?

These questions and more are answered in this third session in our CGL Master Class. Join us as Academy Director of Education, Patrick Wraight digs into the additional insured.

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