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L’envers du risque: brokers tell the stories of the risks they insure
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A John Woo stunt to insure by Tuesday. A €60 million townhouse to cover in two hours. Tattooed pigs exhibited in the United States. In L’envers du risque, brokers tell the stories of the risks they insure. The first five episodes, in French.
People talk a lot about insurance brokers without ever really listening to them. The job is seen as administrative. It is the exact opposite: expertise, decisions taken in a few hours, and risks nobody else wants to carry.
L’envers du risque (the other side of risk) is the podcast that shows this backstage. One broker, one story, and what it says about the trade. I ask the questions, they tell the stories. Episodes are in French.
The first episodes
A €60 million townhouse in Paris to insure in 2 hours. Benjamin Robert, co-founder of Clever, works with major entrepreneurs who have everything to protect. A Formula 1 car to deliver the next day, a watch worth several hundred thousand euros, a fleet of catamarans leaving Brittany for the Seychelles.
4 restaurants later, he becomes a broker for restaurant owners. Eren opened his first restaurant at 20 with his mother. Four restaurants later, he saw that restaurant insurance contracts were rarely fit for purpose. He added brokerage to his trade and founded Assur Resto.
“We shoot on Tuesday, can you insure a John Woo stunt?” Antoine is a film and media risk broker at Rubini & Associés. One Saturday in August, a line producer calls: a 4×4 has to fly over a statue, in the middle of the sixteenth arrondissement, the following Tuesday.
Museum heists: how are works of art insured? Aurélia has insured works of art for 25 years. Goods that often cannot be replaced. And questions only contemporary art can raise: if a pig tattooed by Wim Delvoye dies during the crossing, what exactly is insured?
Hacked autonomous vehicle: who pays the claim? Guillaume Santiago founded ONLYNNOV in 2016 from the basement of his house in Lyon. More than 600 innovative companies trust him. He tells how he pushes insurers toward risks nobody has covered before.
Without specialist brokers, what would become of France’s heritage? An episode about those who insure what cannot be rebuilt.
Why this podcast
Because at Panora, we build a product for these people. The better we understand their trade, the better the assistant runs it. And because these stories deserve to be heard beyond the industry.
Every episode is on our YouTube channel. Subscribe, the next ones are coming.
