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The forecasting, demand planning and S&OP podcast designed for practitioners in the field. Brought to you by the Institute of Business Forecasting with your host Eric Wilson, ACPF.
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The Insurance Chatter with Reghan Brandt

Reghan Brandt | LRP, The Loss Run Pros | CPF, Columbia Pacific Finance | The Insurance Chatter

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This is the Insurance Chatter! What is the insurance industry talking about? What problems are insurtechs solving? What trends are agents, brokers, underwriters and executives thinking about? Every week, I sit down with a different person from across the insurance industry to discuss what's happening in their niche markets. I want to give you a behind the scenes look at risk, technology, data and culture within one of the most exciting business sectors. Follow along to get pumped and see whe ...
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Recent Gen Z college graduates are unprepared for the workplace and in need of etiquette training, according to a survey of business professionals. Victor Ocasio reports on Newsday.com that according to the survey by Intelligent.com, which polled 966 business leaders involved in hiring decisions at their company, 46% of respondents said that recent…
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Welcome to Club Prairie Fire, the home of Tequila, Tabasco and The Duckworth Lewis Stern System…This is Season 8 episode 4. In this episode, Gilly, Vaughany, The Prof and Ollie relive all their favourite moments from the T20 Ashes which resulted in another draw between these two Cricketing giants. The lads also ruin the microscope over the the Upco…
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For nearly a decade, the Spanish Embassy’s Ministry of Culture, Education and Sports has recognized each of Southampton’s Public Schools…SES, SIS, and SHS…as an International Spanish Academy, or ISA, which “implement a Spanish-English dual language immersion curriculum with the support, consultancy and recognition of the Ministry,” according to its…
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MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, the NYPD, and other law-enforcement agencies seized 286 vehicles and made 58 arrests during a September crackdown on ghost plates and persistent toll violators, officials said yesterday. Michael O'Keeffe reports in NEWSDAY that the multiagency task force cracking down on deadbeat drivers has conducted 44 operations s…
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Suffolk's top law enforcement official said a seven-month narcotics investigation led to the first seizure in the county of carfentanil, a potentially deadly synthetic opioid that is 100 times stronger than fentanyl and used to tranquilize large mammals. Michael O'Keeffe reports in NEWSDAY that Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said yest…
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This past Tuesday, October 1, the 14th anniversary of the Shinnecock Nation becoming a federally recognized Native American tribe, the Town of Southampton hosted the inaugural Shinnecock Heritage Day in the Town Hall auditorium in Southampton Village. Shinnecock Tribal Council Chairwoman Lisa Goree called the event a “very important first step” as …
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Tens of thousands of unionized dockworkers walked off the job yesterday, halting shipments in New York, New Jersey and dozens of other ports along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, while spiking concerns about the flow of goods and ramifications for consumers. Lorena Mongelli reports in NEWSDAY that the strike — by 45,000 International Longshoremen’s A…
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Welcome to Club Prairie Fire, the home of Tequila, Tabasco and The Duckworth Lewis Stern System. This is Season 8 episode 7. In this episode of everyone's favourite non-sensical cricket podcast, Gilly, Vaughany and The Professor take a look at another immoral victory for the Aussies, this time in the ODI ashes. Those pesky Mathematicians decided th…
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As the number of English-language learning students increases across Long Island, education advocates say teachers certified for bilingual-education classes are becoming harder to find. The lack of proper bilingual education could hurt the academic performance of English-language learners, advocates and educators say. Darwin Yanes reports in NEWSDA…
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Nearly a month into the school year, the Tuckahoe Common School District sits at a three-way intersection as administrators contemplate the road ahead. Michelle Trauring reports on 27east.com that the first option is the status quo: to remain a prekindergarten-through-eighth grade school and send students on to Southampton or Westhampton Beach high…
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Welcome to Club Prairie Fire! The home of Tequila, Tabasco and The Duckworth Lewis Stern System. This is Season 8 episode 6. In this episode, former Indian excitement machine Yuvraj Singh joins Gilly, Vaughany, The Prof and Ollie to relive all his favourite moments from his career including the time he hit Stuart Broad for six 6's in an over, the t…
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is formulating a plan for the state to regulate — and possibly ban — the use of smartphones in schools, citing the harmful effects of personal electronics and social media on attention and mental health. Alek Lewis reports on Riverheadlocal.com that over the past few months, Hochul has been on a listening tour across the …
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Two commercially zoned parcels on Sag Harbor’s waterfront owned by developer Adam Potter that had been proposed as a future home for Bay Street Theater and an extension of John Steinbeck Waterfront Park have reportedly been sold. Stephen J. Kotz reports on 27east.com that sources say the buyer is Jeremy Morton, who already owns restaurant propertie…
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In this episode, I sit down with Kyle Garcia, Director of NAM SCM Strategy at Adidas, to explore the surge of meetings during COVID and why they never seemed to go away. Drawing from his recent survey, Kyle shares insights into the current state of decision-making and I show how businesses can adopt decision mapping techniques to streamline meeting…
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Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine has proposed a $4 billion county budget for the upcoming year that will raise property taxes while maintaining services, boosting information technology spending and adding a net 95 police officers. Vera Chinese reports in NEWSDAY that total spending under the plan, Romaine’s first since taking office in J…
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The use of generative AI, such as chatbots and image generators that create content, has grown in schools. In some Long Island districts, more teachers are using these programs to help craft lesson plans, design classroom activities and grade certain assignments, educators said. Concerns of misuse remain, as some worry that such tools could undercu…
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Members of the Sag Harbor School Board and school administration debated the merits of a potential move to get rid of class ranking at the board’s latest meeting this week. It was not the first time the topic was brought up for discussion at a board meeting. The potential merits and drawbacks of eliminating the rankings were presented initially at …
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Former President Donald Trump vowed to make Ground Zero a national monument, while painting a bleak picture of Long Island and New York City as overrun with Central American migrants during a raucous rally last night at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. As reported in NEWSDAY, Trump spoke for nearly 90 minutes before a packed crowd inside the 16,0…
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PSEG Long Island has embarked on a monthslong storm-resilience project in East Hampton Village, Springs and Northwest Harbor. The utility announced the continuation of its “Power On” program last week to improve the reliability of the energy grid, part of a multiyear effort. “We are working hard to reduce the number of outages that occur during sev…
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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, backed by a display of law-enforcement muscle, vowed to keep former President Donald Trump and his supporters safe at tomorrow’s rally at Nassau Coliseum, Trump’s first campaign event since Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt in Florida. Blakeman and Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said the count…
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's next five-year Capital Program, set to be released this month, will include plans to "dramatically increase" spending on new Long Island Rail Road train cars and to "expand and upgrade" the LIRR's branches, the head of the MTA said yesterday. What's less clear, MTA chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said, is h…
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The East Quogue school system has employed armed security staff at its one school building, officials said, marking yet another small Long Island district to place a guard with a gun on campus. Craig Schneider reports in NEWSDAY that the East End district, which serves about 400 students in grades K-6 in a single schoolhouse, brought in armed guard…
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Former New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo clashed with members of a Republican-led subcommittee yesterday over his handling of policy for nursing homes and coronavirus patients in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Tom Brune reports in NEWSDAY that Cuomo, sitting alone at a long witness table before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavir…
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Welcome to Club Prairie Fire, the home of Tequila, Tabasco and The Duckworth Lewis Stern System…This is Season 8 episode 4 - Titled "The Unexpected test match win episode"… Sri lanka. What a miraculous victory. England, after being in the box seat at 265 for 3 in their first innings, and not to mention having Sri Lanka 5 for 96…couldn't get it done…
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A Riverhead man who police say fired five shots into a Hampton Bays home in early July was arrested on August 22 after an extensive investigation by the Southampton Town Police, Riverhead Town Police and Suffolk County district attorney’s office. The man, Lawrence Brown Jr., 26, was indicted this week on felony weapons charges, District Attorney Ra…
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Drivers in the Town of Hempstead last year were hit with nearly 40,000 more school bus camera tickets than drivers in Suffolk County, despite having half the population. Payton Guion reports in NEWSDAY that BusPatrol America, a Virginia-based company that runs the school bus camera programs, recorded 140,456 violations in Hempstead in 2023, compare…
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The credit card surcharge has crept into daily life like rust on a tractor — appearing so slowly that customers hardly notice it until it is, seemingly, all over. Michael Wright reports on 27east.com that the little signs on cash registers announcing, or acknowledging, that a surcharge of up to 4 percent will be added to the price of any transactio…
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Customers are returning to the Long Island Rail Road, with ridership up 17% in the first half of 2024 compared with the same period last year and expected to climb even higher now that the summer season is concluding, the LIRR’s president said. Though still below pre-pandemic levels, MTA officials and experts attributed the railroad’s recovery to t…
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Welcome to Club Prairie Fire, the home of Tequila, Tabasco and The Duckworth Lewis Stern System…This is Season 8 episode 3 - What will be known as the "Who is Better" Episode Off the back of an unbelievable test match for Joe Root against Sri Lanka, including a century in each innings, Vaughany has some very interesting stats about how Joe stacks u…
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Donate to WLIW-FM by becoming one of 100 new sustaining members! Suffolk officials are projecting a roughly $40 million deficit in sales tax revenue by the end of the year, according to a budget review given to lawmakers yesterday. Tiffany Cusaac-Smith reports in NEWSDAY that the sales tax deficit is a nearly $2 million increase from the $38 millio…
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Another week and more Club Prairie Fire fun, your home of Tequila, Tabasco and The Duckworth Lewis Stern System. This week, Gilly, Vaughany, Prof and Ollie analyse the three Lions who were led for the first time by Ollie Pope. The England side were given and almighty scare from those Super Sri Lankans who came very close to an upset over the Bazbal…
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Donate to WLIW-FM by becoming one of 100 new sustaining members! A married couple whose Noyac rental house didn’t have working smoke detectors when it caught on fire, killing a pair of sisters from Maryland who were vacationing with their family in 2022, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges related to the fire, the Suffolk district attorney’s office…
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Donate to WLIW-FM by becoming one of 100 new sustaining members! President Joe Biden yesterday issued a federal emergency declaration for Suffolk County to aid disaster relief efforts after catastrophic storms hit Long Island last week, the White House said. Biden’s declaration opened up the pathway for federal money to be available for certain eme…
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The number of new court cases involving immigrants lacking permanent legal status has plummeted on Long Island and around the country since President Joe Biden's June order restricting entry into the country for most asylum-seekers, according to a new federal data analysis. Robert Brodsky reports in NEWSDAY that Biden's presidential proclamation, i…
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With Election Day less than 11 weeks away, Republican U.S. Representative Nick LaLota and John Avlon, his Democratic challenger for New York’s 1st Congressional District seat, continue to needle one another over their residency and, by extension, their fitness to represent the district. Christopher Walsh reports on 27east.com that LaLota, a first-t…
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The East End Supervisors and Mayors Association is trying to keep pressure on the Long Island Rail Road and its parent, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to follow through on a proposed major infrastructure project that would expand the number of trains on the popular South Fork Commuter Connection. Stephen J. Kotz reports on 27east.com th…
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In this insightful episode, I sat down with Imane (Amy) Sabeh, the Director of Global S&OP at KBI Biopharma and my co-author of the latest book Practical Guide to Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP/IBP). Together, we unveil what readers can expect from this timely and essential guide that’s flying off the shelves. Discover why this book is perfect…
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Welcome to Club Prairie Fire, the home of Tequila, Tabasco and The Duckworth Lewis Stern System…This is Season 8 - the Hot and Steamy English Summer season. After a 7 Weeks Hiatus Gilly, Vaughany, The Professor and Ollie return to dissect all things in the wonderful world of Cricket. England said a teary Goodbye to one of their finest servants, the…
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The Riverhead Town Board is set to adopt the town’s new comprehensive plan during a special meeting called for 6 p.m. Wednesday…that’s tomorrow evening. The plan, which will help guide town policy for the next 15-20 years, includes recommendations on a range of issues, the most impactful of those being how land across the town should be used and wh…
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The Town of Riverhead is contemplating a zone change that could allow agritourism resorts on the north side of Sound Avenue. Resorts could be built on minimum 100-acre properties and must preserve 70% of the land for farming. Some farmers are wary of the proposal, which would restrict the type of agriculture allowed on the resort properties. Tara S…
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The NYS Public Service Commission yesterday approved a three-year rate hike that will allow London-based National Grid to raise average residential natural gas bills by $33 a month starting next month. The six commissioners voted unanimously to pass the increase. Mark Harrington reports in NEWSDAY that PSC commissioners generally applauded the rate…
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Seven Suffolk County residents have sued the county over its school bus camera program, arguing there was insufficient evidence to cite them for allegedly passing a stopped school bus. Payton Guion reports in NEWSDAY that the lawsuit, filed last month in Suffolk Supreme Court, leans on a state court decision from last year that for months held up p…
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The number of LIRR delays caused by problems with train doors was up 79% in the first half of 2024 compared with the same period last year, according to railroad officials. Alfonso A. Castillo reports in NEWSDAY that the door issues arising in the Long Island Rail Road’s decades-old trains are adding urgency to calls for the MTA to modernize its ag…
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WCBS/880 AM, the all-news radio station New Yorkers have known for decades by the trademark "Traffic and weather together on the 8’s" will sign off Aug. 26, parent company Audacy announced yesterday. In a twist to an enduring sports talk radio battle, Audacy will license the 880 frequency to ESPN New York, rival to its own WFAN sports radio talk st…
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New York State Governor Kathy Hochul visited the Town of East Hampton this past Friday, when she announced $2.5 million in state funding toward restoration of the dune system at Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk, where three storms last winter devastated the beach and dunes and caused flooding in the surrounding neighborhood. Christopher Walsh reports …
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A limo and a ride-share driver allegedly supplying cocaine and ecstasy to clientele on the south fork were charged in an alleged million-dollar East End Drug Task Force bust in East Hampton Aug. 1, town and county court records show. Grant Parpan reports in NEWSDAY that Michael Khodorkovskiy, of Brooklyn, and Alexandr Dyatchin, of Hallandale, Flori…
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Members of the Shinnecock Nation and supporters held a rally outside Southampton Town Hall this past Monday calling on the town to spend more Community Preservation Fund money to preserve land seen as sacred to the tribe in Shinnecock Hills. With the rhythm of ancestral songs by two Shinnecock drummers in the background, a group of about 30 people …
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Join us for this incredible milestone as we celebrate our 100th episode after 4 unbelievable years! In this celebratory episode, I bring back some of your favorite past guests and share exclusive behind-the-scenes stories about the inspiration that fueled this podcast. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey, especially …
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the company that operates school bus cameras in dozens of school districts across Long Island, which has generated tens of millions of dollars in fines from drivers. Payton Guion reports in NEWSDAY that United States District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos on Thursday rejected all claims made against…
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Although thoughtless passengers long have been a staple of the Long Island Railroad, many LIRR regulars believe commuter courtesy is at an all-time low — worsened by advancements in technology and pandemic-related societal changes. Alfonso A. Castillo reports on Newsday.com that with fare evasion and assaults on conductors on the rise in recent yea…
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