O'Connor is the Southeast editor for Insurance Journal and associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com.
Elizabeth is Deputy Editor at Carrier Management. She hosts The Insuring Cyber Podcast and Between the Lines, a quarterly video series exploring topics in Carrier Management's latest magazine edition. Elizabeth can be reached at eblosfield@wellsmedia.com.
March 22, 2019
What motivates people to take a risk in an industry dedicated to managing risk? New independent agencies are born of various circumstances. Sometimes it’s about seizing an opportunity that comes along; other times, it’s about creating something out of necessity. …
March 18, 2019
Today’s Insurance Consumer Advocates Are Tackling Some New and Old Issues Years ago, insurance consumer advocates in the states were most often focused on getting consumers access to insurance at fair prices. They still advocate on those issues, of course, …
March 18, 2019
Michigan State University continues to explore its insurance coverage options with regard to sexual assault or molestation claims brought against the school after rejecting renewal coverage offered by its long-term liability insurer and setting up its own captive insurer for …
March 15, 2019
Texas independent insurance agents might want to warn their homeowner insurance customers that premium hikes and/or increases in deductibles could be on the horizon this year. Homeowners insurers have been filing for rate increases in the state over the past …
March 8, 2019
Michigan State University continues to explore its insurance coverage options with regard to sexual assault or molestation claims brought against the school after rejecting renewal coverage offered by its long-term liability insurer and setting up its own captive insurer for …
March 4, 2019
Texas independent insurance agents might want to warn their homeowner insurance customers that premium hikes and/or increases in deductibles could be on the horizon this year. Homeowners insurers have been filing for rate increases in the state over the past …
February 18, 2019
Minnesota’s highest court has declined to expand the state’s doctrine of implied primary assumption of risk to recreational skiing and snowboarding. The Minnesota Supreme Court considered the issue in Soderberg v. Anderson, published Jan. 23, 2019. The case involves a …
February 5, 2019
Minnesota’s high court has declined to expand the state’s doctrine of implied primary assumption of risk to recreational skiing and snowboarding. The Minnesota Supreme Court came to that conclusion Soderberg v. Anderson, published Jan. 23, 2019. The case involves a …
February 4, 2019
To be the insurer of last resort for wind and hail insurance along the Texas coast — without state support and reliant on premium dollars and debt financing for funding, or to be a true insurance company that derives funding …
January 23, 2019
To be the insurer of last resort for wind and hail insurance along the Texas coast, without state support and reliant on premium dollars and debt financing for funding, or to be a true insurance company that derives funding primarily …