AIRROC's The Legacy Life

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AIRROC's The Legacy Life Podcast

Welcome to AIRROC's The Legacy Life, the podcast asking: "what does a career in runoff insurance or reinsurance actually look like?" Join us as we sit down with industry professionals who have built long, rewarding careers in the legacy space and hear their stories.This podcast is produced by AIRROC's NextGen Task Force as part of our initiative to introduce more young professionals to the legacy insurance and reinsurance space. Whether you are already familiar with runoff or are asking "what's reinsurance?", this podcast is for you. And don't worry, we get that "what's reinsurance?" question all the time!Please join us every other week for a new episode. For more information, please visit us at airroc.org!

  1. 08/23/2023

    Juliana Toes - Mayer Brown

    We are joined by Juliana Toes, an Associate at Mayer Brown, this week on AIRROC’s The Legacy Life. Juliana is a member of the AIRROC NextGen Council, and we have been keeping her very busy with speaking engagements this year. She has presented at the 2023 Deal Forum, the 2023 Regional Education Day in Chicago, the 2023 Demystifying Legacy event with RE40 in NYC and moderated a panel at the 2023 Summer Membership Meeting. While it may sound like a lot (and it is), Juliana says: “It’s been...

    14 min

  2. 08/09/2023

    Layla Trummer - Munich Re

    This week we are joined by Layla Trummer, a Reinsurance Structurer at Munich Re Insurance America Incorporated. Layla is an active member of the AIRROC NextGen Council. If she sounds familiar, you may have heard her speaking at the 2023 Deal Forum, the 2023 Regional Education Day in Chicago or the 2023 Demystifying Legacy event with RE40 in NYC. Layla discovered reinsurance in university while researching what kinds of companies hire actuaries. She may have been the only 18 year o...

    13 min

  3. 07/26/2023

    Sandra Santomenno and Eric Pince - WTW

    We’re talking to Sandy Santomenno and Eric Pince from WTW this week. Sandy is the soon-to-be retired Senior Director in charge of the legacy liabilities space at WTW which includes asbestos, environmental and health hazard claims. We’re glad we caught her before she left! And Eric is currently transitioning into the Senior Director role. In this episode, we talk about the future of the legacy space, including how there’s an ongoing need for creative thinkers and people interested in lear...

    15 min

  4. 07/12/2023

    Natalie Weedman - Swiss Re

    In the legacy spotlight this week is Natalie Weedman, a Portfolio Management Analyst at Swiss Re. Natalie is also a member of the AIRROC NextGen Council and has been actively involved with NextGen almost since its creation in 2020. Natalie started her career working at an insurance agency as a license producer for personal lines P&C. Three years into that role she decided she never wanted to work in insurance again. A friend suggested she take a job in reinsurance. Like many o...

    13 min

  5. 06/28/2023

    Megan McHugh - Brandywine

    This week on The Legacy Life we are talking to Megan McHugh, AVP on the Assumed Reinsurance team at Brandywine Group of Insurance and Reinsurance Companies. Only a few of our guests have had linear career paths, and Megan is certainly not one of them. During our conversation she explains how she left the reinsurance industry to raise her children and then successfully reentered the industry thirteen years later. Going back into reinsurance after so many years was daunting, but she did it. Meg...

    13 min

  6. 06/14/2023

    Eric Haller - Fleming Insurance Holdings

    Welcome to season 4 of AIRROC's The Legacy Life! We are thrilled to be back and chatting with Eric Haller, CEO and co-founder of Fleming Insurance Holdings. For those not in the know, Fleming was founded in 2018 with the goal of reimagining the legacy space through LPT solutions, changing how risks are shared and applying modern technology to old claims. Eric started his career in insurance as a CPA, CFA, but he didn't take the path in insurance that one would expect from someone holding...

    16 min

  7. 11/16/2022

    Lee Vuu - Argo Group

    This week we’re joined by Lee Vuu, Vice President of Reinsurance Claims at Argo Group. Lee discusses how she started her career as an Executive Assistant with no reinsurance experience and eventually became a VP of Reinsurance. The secret to her success? “It’s really asking a lot of questions,” she says. And while she asked a lot of questions of her co-workers, she also looked outside her company for learning opportunities. “I saw my reinsurers as a point of contact to learn from them. I aske...

    20 min

  8. 11/02/2022

    Jose Martinez - Swiss Re

    This week we're joined by Jose Martinez, Vice President of Reinsurance and Commutations Expert at Swiss Re. We asked a lot of Jose in this episode and he rose to the challenge. In addition to describing his role and career thus far, Jose also discusses his practical strategies for engaging potential future insurance professionals from grade school to adulthood, the importance of knowledge transfer in the legacy space and the value of social media in networking. Listen to the episode...

    16 min
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Welcome to AIRROC's The Legacy Life, the podcast asking: "what does a career in runoff insurance or reinsurance actually look like?" Join us as we sit down with industry professionals who have built long, rewarding careers in the legacy space and hear their stories.This podcast is produced by AIRROC's NextGen Task Force as part of our initiative to introduce more young professionals to the legacy insurance and reinsurance space. Whether you are already familiar with runoff or are asking "what's reinsurance?", this podcast is for you. And don't worry, we get that "what's reinsurance?" question all the time!Please join us every other week for a new episode. For more information, please visit us at airroc.org!

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  • Creator
    AIRROC
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2023 AIRROC's The Legacy Life
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