Eastern Kentucky University Taps Christensen for Insurance Chair

The new Robert B. Morgan Chair of Insurance at Eastern Kentucky University brings 30 years of experience as an attorney and executive officer in the insurance industry. Burke A. Christensen most recently served as chief operating officer and general counsel of Concert Health Plan Insurance Company of Oak Brook, Ill.

Robert B. Morgan, an EKU graduate and the retired CEO and president of Cincinnati Financial Corporation, endowed the position.

Previously, Christensen served as vice president of operations and in-house counsel to Quotesmith.com (now insure.com) for its 1999 IPO and was responsible for agent market conduct compliance for the company, which represented more than 300 life, health and automobile insurance companies. He was formerly general counsel of the Society for Financial Services Professionals, preparing and presenting testimony on behalf of the insurance industry before state legislatures, federal agencies and the U.S. Senate.

He is the author/editor of three college textbooks on the law of life and health insurance published by The American College: McGill’s Life Insurance, Legal Aspects of Life Insurance and Essentials of Life Insurance Products. In addition, he has authored more than 100 articles on professional ethics, market conduct compliance, producer liability and the regulation of insurance.

Christensen has been an author of college textbooks on insurance as well as a guest lecturer in insurance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the John Marshall Law School. He has spoken on insurance-related topics at insurance industry and bar association meetings nationwide.

EKU offers Kentucky’s only undergraduate degree in insurance. The University’s Insurance and Risk Management Program was established in 1976 and has been underwritten in part by a series of grants from Kentucky’s insurance industry.

Source: EKU