Mactavish Insights: Recent Episodes
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Mactavish's Claims Resolution Practice works on some of the largest and most complex claims in the London market. In this short podcast, our Chief Technical Officer, Rob Smart, explains how we work and what makes our approach unique.
Mactavish's Managing Director, Heidi Carslaw, and Technical Director, Ben Sanders, discuss how our unique approach to corporate insurance helps drive down costs while improving the reliability of cover for our SME clients.
In this clip David Hertzell and Malcolm Cutts-Watson discuss some of the issues that those in the risk and insurance industry should be aware of in the year ahead - including an increased focus on systemic risk to the use of captives in hard market.
You can listen to the full podcast here.
In this clip Malcolm Cutts-Watson explains why conservative approaches to capital management mean captives are considerably underused. He demonstrates that there is considerable room for more aggressive underwriting or capital release back to parent firms.
You can access the full podcast here.
In this clip, former Law Commissioner, David Hertzell, explains why captive owners need to be abreast of the requirements set out in the Insurance Act 2015 if they're to remain compliant.
In conversation with Malcolm Cutts-Watson, David describes how being able to demonstrate internal processes is essential if owners wish to avoid potential claims disputes with reinsurers and maintain their status in the eyes of tax authorities.
You can listen to the full podcast here.
In this clip Malcolm Cutts-Watson explains how Covid-19 has brought changes for captive owners. He discusses claims certainty, using captives to fill in coverage gaps and why captive owners need to take a different approach to strategy and governance.
You can listen to the full podcast here.
In this clip from our latest Mactavish Podcast, Malcolm Cutts-Watson explains why, despite the hard market, the overall number of captives has declined over the last year. He also shares his prediction on what's likely to happen over the long-run.
You can access the full podcast here.
Malcolm Cutts-Watson, Founder and MD of Cutts-Watson Consulting and former Law Commissioner, David Hertzell, explain their views on what's happening in the world of captives, how owners and managers are responding to regulatory change and what to be aware of in the year ahead.
With the insurance market going through a dramatic 'hard' phase, captives can be an attractive alternative to traditional forms of risk transfer. Our expert guests discuss how this is impacting on captive growth and how this trend is likely to play out.
The FCA's Business Interruption test case has been making headlines since it was first announced in May 2020. The case was initially heard by the High Court, with subsequent appeals coming before the Supreme Court and a final ruling being handed down in January.
This case involved some highly complex legal arguments and, despite the positive headlines, many policyholders may find that they still face an uphill battle in getting their claims paid.
In this short podcast Mactavish's Chief Technical Officer, Rob Smart, and Managing Director, Heidi Carslaw, explain what the case means for policyholders and touch on some of its broader ramifications.
You can also find out more about our thinking on the case here.
Mactavish's Head of Corporate Customer Solutions, Tom White, discusses why this hard market is different, how underwriters are reacting and what policyholders need to do to make their risk stand out.
We're joined by Colm Kelleher, Managing Director of LHK Insurance and Heidi Carslaw, Managing Director here at Mactavish for a conversation about the UK and Irish markets. Our guests discuss the trends that they're seeing and how policyholders can respond to the current hard market conditions.
In this first podcast by Mactavish Insights we're joined by our colleagues Georgia Hockenhull, James O'Connor and Adam Large.
The team explain what it's like to work at Mactavish, how they support clients and what trends they're seeing in the insurance market place. From rising premiums to overstretched brokers and the erosion of policy wordings.