Fernando Alvarez – Spotlight: Why Property Insurance Rates are Rising | Ep. 55

In this episode with Miami real estate insurance expert Fernando Alvarez, we discuss the various exposures properties will face in 2021 and how to create a comprehensive risk management strategy. With over a decade of experience, Alvarez explains candidly how the real estate insurance market works, and how his own company aims to offer a transparent and honest experience to his clients at JAG.  

Recorded mid-December 2020, the episode covers the following topics:

• Understanding the tidal wave of property insurance rate spikes
• Why insurance rates are rising for commercial real estate owners
• The changing claims process and InsurTech role on underwriting
• Catastrophic claims: How the overall claim environment affects insurance rates regardless of one’s proximity to losses from wildfires and hurricanes.
• Best practices and practical tips for homeowners

Fernando Alvarez is an athlete, entrepreneur, principal of JAG Insurance Group, podcaster, and host of The Transition: Life After Sports Podcast.

About JAG Insurance Group: With nearly a decade of hard-earned industry insight and high-level expertise, JAG continues to pave a forward-thinking approach in the commercial insurance and risk management landscape. JAG offers extensive, integrated business solutions across a multitude of sectors, including, employee benefits, property and casualty insurance, and financial and private client services. 

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