“It was the first FAIR Plan launched in over 20 years.”
When a state becomes the insurer of last resort, it cannot improvise.
A FAIR Plan must operate like a real insurance company: capitalized, issuing paper, fully serviced, and compliant from day one.
In this case, the state had no funds in place.
Within 120 days, the Xceedance team:
Secured the required funding
Stood up full insurance operations
Built the vendor ecosystem
Launched services end-to-end
They were writing business within four months.
An exceptional example of how public-sector insurance initiatives still require private-market execution discipline.
🎙 Episode 145 of hashtag#InsurtechTalk with Katey Walker
Founders, operators, and industry experts—real infrastructure, not theory.
In this episode, we go on an unexpectedly fascinating journey — starting with coyotes and foxes, moving through African farming and UK wildlife, and ending in the heart of what this conversation is really about: insurance, reinsurance, and building modern core systems for carriers.
Stephanie Mier, Chief Insurance Officer for ServiceUp, talks about modernizing Direct Repair Programs (DRP) and in the insurance and auto repair industry and ServiceUP
Tiffine Wang and Gilad Shai talk about MS&AD Ventures, the state of venture investments in the #InsurTech sector.
In this episode, Jason D Cass, the Managing Partner of The Insurance Alliance, joined Gilad Shai to talk about the future of the independent insurance agency and Jason's new venture - IndieTech. IndieTech is a conference, AUGUST 29th-31st in Indiana Convention Center Indianapolis, dedicated to technology that empowers insurance agents.
Episode 146 | Climate Tech, Construction Innovation & Insurance Risk
What does climate tech have to do with construction and insurance?
In the first InsureTech Talk episode of 2026, I sit down with Josh Dorfman — climate entrepreneur and Founder of Planted — to unpack the intersection of climate innovation, supply chain resilience, advanced manufacturing, and insurability.
