The latest installment of a special bonus podcast series from the Big “I" national Young Agents Committee (YAC) and Trusted Choice® focuses on the current state of the market, weather events, relationships with clients and carriers, and incidents that have led to an increased focus on risk management.

In this episode, host Daschle Larsen, national YAC committee member and risk executive at North Risk Partners in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is joined by Jack Griffith, partner at TWIA Insurance Agency in Summerville, South Carolina. They discuss ways agencies can work with clients to identify potential risks, as well as how agency-carrier relationships can help tell a story about a client's business and the agent's focus on being proactive with their risk management measures.

“Carriers are being more conservative," Griffith said. “So, we want to try to keep that open line of communication, almost to incentivize our carriers to stay on the account. We're not waiting until the bus full of 20 employees tips over to start looking at what we could have done wrong. We're trying to get in front of that."

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