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Insurance & Insurtech: the podcasts, blogs and shows worth following
Carrier strategy, reinsurance pricing, and the distribution and core-system modernisation underneath. These are the public sources Briefwire reads to cover it — the podcasts, blogs and shows — each fetched and checked before it is listed, and each with a note on what it is good for.
Podcasts, blogs and shows.
underwriting · reinsurance · regulation · distribution
19 September 2026. Every source is English-language and public: nothing behind a paywall or a login is read.
Podcasts
Where operators and investors reason out loud at length. The receipt for a line from one of these is a timestamp.
- Insurance Business Babes
Kathe Kline and working Medicare agents on AEP pipeline, LOAs and compliance; ships transcripts.
- The Voice of Insurance
The best CEO interviews in specialty insurance and reinsurance; pricing discussed openly.
- Profiles in Risk
High-frequency insurtech founder and broker interviews across distribution.
- FNO: InsureTech
Carrier innovation leads on core-system modernisation and what it actually costs.
- Leadership in Insurance (LIIP)
UK and European insurtech executives on distribution and MGA moves.
- InsurTech Geek
Deep conversations with the technology buyers inside carriers.
- Underwriting Evolved (RGA)
RGA's own underwriters on life evidence, accelerated underwriting and what they will and will not automate.
- (Re)thinking Insurance (WTW)
WTW's own consultants on reserving, capital and IFRS 17 mechanics; the broker-consultant view of carrier balance sheets.
- InsTech
Matthew Grant and Robin Merttens interviewing London-market founders and underwriters on pricing and automation.
- Insurance Insider - Behind the Headlines
- The Reinsurance Podcast
Cedent and reinsurer practitioners on what actually earns capacity at renewal; unusually candid on treaty terms.
- Making Risk Flow
Juan de Castro interviewing commercial underwriting leaders on risk digitisation; ships transcripts.
- The Future of Insurance
Bryan Falchuk one-on-one with carrier founders and veterans; long-form and unedited on strategy failures.
- The Insurtech Leadership Podcast
Founder and carrier-innovation interviews on where insurtech capital is going; ships transcripts.
- The Insurance Coffee House
Nick Hoadley interviewing insurance C-suite hires on culture, comp and why leaders move.
- Insurance Covered
RPC's coverage lawyers walking through wordings and disputes; the legal read on what a policy actually pays.
- Research Insights (Society of Actuaries)
Actuaries walking through their own mortality, morbidity and reserving studies; ships transcripts.
- InsuranceAUM
Insurance CIOs and asset managers on portfolio allocation — the investment half of an insurer's earnings.
- The Insurance Guys
Bradley Flowers and Scott Howell, two working agency principals, on commission economics and carrier appetite.
- Power Producers Podcast
David Carothers on commercial-lines production; concrete on producer comp and agency build economics.
- Finding Peak (Ryan Hanley)
Ryan Hanley, former agency and insurtech operator, interviewing distribution leaders with his own name on it.
- Insurance Town
Heath Shearon with independent-agency owners on retention and hiring; ships transcripts.
- The Insura-Preneur Podcast
Michael Jans on agency ownership economics — valuation, growth rate and owner exits.
- Alliance NOW! Risk & Insurance
The National Alliance's practitioner sessions on cyber cover, producer development and E&O exposure.
- M&M Insurance Podcast
Australian brokers and carrier executives on local market conditions; the AU read the US trades do not carry.
Blogs and newsletters
Company engineering blogs, analyst newsletters and practitioner posts. The receipt is the paragraph.
Catastrophe bonds, ILS pricing and alternative reinsurance capital; the capacity signal.
Reinsurer results, renewal pricing and capacity shifts; dates the hard/soft market turn.
P&C executive strategy with underwriting and combined-ratio analysis.
Daily US P&C market, agency M&A and regulatory news; broad corroborating source.
Daily cross-agency US insurance rulemaking, structured and primary.
Australia's prudential regulator publishing the quarterly general, life and health insurance performance statistics itself.
Canada's insurance and bank supervisor; recent items cover catastrophe bonds and technology risk expectations.
Disaster declarations and NFIP flood-map actions — the statutory event that starts a catastrophe loss cycle.
The dominant P&C core-system vendor on what carriers are actually migrating and why.
Guidewire's closest competitor in policy administration; useful as the second reading on core-platform claims.
Coretech vendor writing on embedded distribution and what insurers are and are not ready to ship.
Carrier software vendor publishing its own market research on L&A and P&C buying priorities.
Risk-management information systems vendor; the operational view of claims and TPA workflow.
Embedded-insurance distributor publishing its own consumer-protection research and partner launches.
SAR satellite operator selling flood and wildfire extent to carriers; the input side of parametric and cat response.
The advisor on most agency and broker M&A; publishes deal counts and valuation multiples directly.
Carries the monthly catastrophe-loss release, which dates US personal-lines loss events before quarterly reporting.
A top-10 mutual on L&A results and executive succession; the mutual side of the market, which files no 10-Q.
The US independent-agent association's own programming — where distribution-side AI and AMS decisions surface first.
The CEO-level insurance think tank publishing its own research; the protection-gap arguments carriers later cite.
Risk-manager-facing reporting on casualty severity, nuclear verdicts and captive formation.
US broker and carrier daily including coverage-litigation outcomes and workers' comp rulings.
UK broker and MGA market: acquisitions, capacity withdrawals and people moves, named and dated.
Long-running agent trade magazine on loss control and coverage disputes at the account level.
Bylined essays by named carrier and vendor executives arguing positions; full article text ships in the feed.
Auto physical-damage claims from the repair side — parts, labour rates and carrier steering disputes, which is where P&C severity actually moves.
The largest publicly traded P&C insurer's own releases — quarterly combined ratio and senior underwriting appointments.
YouTube shows
Interviews, conference talks and explainers, read from their published captions.
AM Best TV interviews with rated-carrier executives at industry conferences.
Broker and carrier leadership on market conditions and where capacity is going.
The world's second-largest reinsurer on heat, flood and adaptation economics; Swiss Re publishes no dated site feed.
Actuarial consultancy on reserving, litigation cost and open-source actuarial tooling; its site feed 404s.
Recorded practitioner panels on claims profitability and agentic AI audit risk; operators, not vendors pitching.
Agency-owner operators on lead cost, staffing and close rates; their podcast feed went silent, this channel did not.
Independent-agency network interviews on negotiation, hiring and producer habits; daily cadence.
What Briefwire does with them
- 01Reads
Every source above is fetched through the day. Spoken sources are read from their published transcript or captions; written ones from the post itself.
- 02Extracts and matches
Discrete claims are pulled out, typed — a product move, a data point, a prediction, an opinion — and matched against the same claim from other publishers.
- 03Ranks and sends
The 12 lines that rank highest go out as a brief, daily or weekly at the hour you choose. A claim several independent sources made ranks higher; that counts agreement, not accuracy, and every line links to where it was said.
More on the method: how a line earns its place, what industry intelligence is, and how this differs from page monitors, podcast summarisers, industry newsletters, and the other tools you may already run.
Run one of the sources above, or think one is missing? How sources are attributed, and how to reach us.
The other industries Briefwire reads
- AI ToolingModel labs, inference platforms, and the release feeds that date every capability claim.
- Dev Tools & InfraCloud platforms, developer infrastructure, and the changelogs that date every shipped feature.
- B2B SaaS & GTMSaaS operating benchmarks, pricing and go-to-market, from operators and the tools they run on.
- E-commerce / DTCRetail and DTC economics: platform changes, channel costs, and merchant-side reality.
- Fintech & PaymentsPayments infrastructure, banking strategy, and the regulators who reset both.
- Crypto & StablecoinsDigital-asset markets, stablecoin issuance, and the protocol releases underneath them.
- CybersecurityThreat intelligence, breach reporting, and the advisories that drive enterprise security spend.
- Healthcare / BiotechDrug development, health-system economics, and the regulator that gates both.
- Climate & EnergyEnergy-transition project economics, utility strategy, and climate-tech capital flows.
- Semiconductors / Hardware / RoboticsSilicon supply chains, independent hardware measurement, and the robotics companies buying it all.
- Legal & RegTechLegal technology adoption, law-firm buying, and the enforcement actions that create compliance demand.
- HR & Future of WorkHiring tools, workforce data, and the employment rules that reset employer obligations.
- Real Estate & PropTechCommercial real-estate capital markets, mortgage technology, and construction-site digitisation.
- Logistics & Supply ChainFreight rates, capacity, forwarder margin, and the regulators who move all three.
- Manufacturing & IndustrialAutomation purchasing, plant capex, and the robotics platforms industrial buyers standardise on.
- Media & Creator EconomyPublisher revenue models, programmatic advertising, and the platform rule changes both depend on.
- GamingStudio economics, platform policy, engine migration, and the discovery data that drives publishing.
Insurance & Insurtech in 12 lines a brief, each with a receipt.
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