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From the outside insurance seems like a monolith. The industry is really an ecosystem though. Products and business models for different lines of business are quite different from one another. Expertise in one line does not mean you have expertise in others, and so insurance professionals must spend an extensive amount of time highly focused in an area. In this episode of Profiles in Risk, I spoke with Kevin O'Brien, President of the Inland Marine Underwriters Association (IMUA). We discussed the benefits of a professional organization for inland marine professionals. Inland marine insurance is highly specialized, requiring its own training, underwriting, production and brokering. The IMUA facilitates all of these for these professionals.  CONNECT WITH KEVIN O'BRIEN:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-o-brien-5832703/ IMUA Homepage: https://www.imua.org/ Annual Event: https://www.imua.org/ev_calendar_day.asp?date=5%2F19%2F19aeventid=2 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:The Beatles White Album: https://amzn.to/2E7WHkA Inland Marine Designation (AMIM): http://bit.ly/2Nru59X  BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY KEVIN:The Builders Risk Book by Stephen Coombs: https://amzn.to/2Eclc01 How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: https://amzn.to/2EtDafA The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs: https://amzn.to/2XlwPKQ Beneath the Scarlett Sky by Mark Sullivan: https://amzn.to/2EtpMIu   SUBSCRIBE AT:Buzzsprout RSS: http://www.buzzsprout.com/87086Google Play: https://goo.gl/WMAvW4iTunes: https://goo.gl/7SqwvP Overcast: https://goo.gl/8b4cbD Spotify: https://goo.gl/niAbGN  Stitcher: https://goo.gl/DmE7MiYouTube: https://goo.gl/1Turar