Ep212 Wendy Houser Markel: The Golden Age of E&S

Today’s guest is in charge of a team of around 400, writing a
book approaching $3 billion in gross written premium in the
largest wholesale insurance market in the world


I have had many CEOs on the show who run significantly smaller
operations.


And that’s what gives this podcast so much weight.


Wendy Houser is Chief Wholesale Officer of Markel Specialty and
is one of a select group of people with day-to-day visibility of
the booming US Excess and Surplus lines (E and S) market.


So today we are going to go into quite a lot of detail about the
state of this huge and dynamic segment.


An unprecedented level of business flow and rate rises has
produced something of a golden age for E&S and we’ll be
trying answer how much longer this state of affairs can continue.


Wendy is great company, so along the way we’ll be getting to know
a remarkable and charismatic insurance leader with a huge amount
of knowledge and insight, who isn’t afraid of making difficult
decisions and certainly doesn’t duck any of my more probing
questions.


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