Patrick Wraight
Patrick is the Director of Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance. As an insurance learning professional, he is passionate about taking the complicated and making it accessible for everyone, especially the insurance community.
He started his insurance career as a commercial underwriter for an MGA that wrote fire departments, ambulance companies, home medical equipment dealers, and other niche markets. It was there that he also started his journey in insurance education by designing and implementing a new underwriter training program.
From there, he moved to one of the largest Florida-based property insurers to become an underwriter trainer. While there, his role expanded beyond classroom and online training to become a learning consultant. He spent time with his customers to determine their learning needs and develop a plan to meet those needs.
Patrick is a prior President of SITE, the Society of Insurance Trainers and Educators.
Patrick has earned several industry designations:
- CIC (Certified Insurance Counselor)
- ITP (Insurance Training Professional)
- CRM (Certified Risk Manager)
- CISR (Certified Insurance Service Representative)
- AU (Associate in Commercial Underwriting)
- AINS (Associate in General Insurance).
No. We're Not Insuring Your Building for What You Paid for It.
What's the difference between replacement cost and market value? Can I simply insure this building for the mortgage amount? What do you mean, there might be a coinsurance penalty? These are some of the questions that Patrick is going to try and answer in this session. Join us and find out what valuation and coinsurance are all about.
You Can't Read Insurance Policies Like Anything Else
Insurance policies are hard to read. We all know it and we all act like they aren't, especially when a customer asks us a "simple" question. You can't just grab a policy and start reading page one and read all the way through. It jumps around and you have to know where to jump with it. Join us as Patrick brings us his top guidelines for how to read an insurance policy and more importantly, the simplest ways to explain the policy to your customers.
COPE and Commercial Property
The principles behind property underwriting have been consistent from the very beginning of property insurance. In this two-part series, we will explore what these principles mean to you, whether you're an agent, an underwriter, or a risk manager. Join us as we learn to better "COPE" with property risks.
Insuring Stuff - A Quick Homeowners' Flyover
In one hour, we'll take a flyover of the property section of the homeowners' policy. Buckle in.
Basic Personal Insurance Course- 8 part series
Our Basic Personal Insurance Course is a four-week course in eight sessions designed to provide a new insurance professional with the basics of a career in P&C insurance, focused on the personal lines area in our business.
The CGL's Other Coverages
There's more to the CGL than BI & PD. This session will focus on Coverage C (Medical Payments) and the oft forgotten Coverage B (Personal and Advertising Injury).