In today’s episode of Agents Influence podcast, host Jason Cass interviews Chris Cheatham, the CEO of Risk Genius. Chris talks about the importance of knowing your policy coverage, Covid-19 coverage concerns, litigations, and social inflation. Chris also shares what made them build the algorithm, and how Risk Genius can help with technology and automation.
Episode Highlights:
Jason Cass introduces guest Chris Cheatham. (1:01)
Is Chris an Android or an iPhone user? (2:27)
What was the last app that Chris downloaded? (2:35)
Does Chris love to win or hate to lose? (5:35)
What does Chris attribute to his success, skill, or luck? (6:06)
Chris shares his background story and the secret of his success. (8:22)
Chris tells a story about the carrier who wants to use their software for policy review and checking. (13:49)
Chris explains why they develop algorithms that understand General Liability policies. (18:29)
Chris states that he was not necessarily an insurance expert when he started. (18:55)
Chris shares that it took five years to figure out how they continuously add different lines of business for carriers. (19:26)
Chris speaks about the greatest coverage crisis in the history of insurance. (20:53)
Did anybody find out that there was actually COVID coverage? (21:56)
Chris talks about social inflation. (28:57)
Chris shares that Warren Buffett came up with a letter to the shareholders in 1975. (29:02)
Chris says that some states are looking to create immunity for businesses that open up like nursing homes. (37:56)
Chris states that policy checking will become even more vital going forward. (44:31)
3 Key Points:
The idea of Risk Genius for developing the algorithms was if somebody would upload a policy, there would be a checklist of clauses they need to review.