Ep 17 P&I primer with Dorothea Ioannou of The American Club

As a journalist one of the best things about my job is being
allowed into the far flung and most fascinating corners of our
industry to find out how things work. Protection and Indemnity -
P&I - is exactly one of those places. And it would be easy to
ignore were it not the source of so many of the biggest insurance
stories of the past decade. For example a mega claim like the
Costa Concordia was a P&I event that captured the attention
of the whole world over many months. But most of us know almost
nothing about this ultra specialist part of the insurance world
and the 13 global marine liability mutuals that inhabit it. In
fact we are actually more ignorant - because most of what we
think we know about P&I is probably wrong. So that’s why I
decided to record this episode with Dorothea Ioannou who is the
Chief Commercial officer of the American Club.


If you don’t know Dorothea she is extremely well regarded and a
strong character and I had a great time talking to her. As well
as mythbusting much of what the non marine world thinks it knows
about P&I, we discuss the ongoing impact of Covid-19 and
other major trends affecting the marine sector and the wider
insurance world.