The library had its annual meeting today and welcomed a new trustee, Patrick Quinn of Quinn Group Insurance, to the board.Patrick Quinn and Frederick N. Nowell, IIIThree awards were presented at the meeting as well. Sara Hua of Ironshore earned The Fra…
We realize that not everyone has taken the time to explore the resources we’ve posted on our website, so we thought we might highlight some here on our blog.From time to time, we get calls asking for the name of a company based on a company code. While…
This year’s Insurance Library Association’s Annual Meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 22, 2011. The meeting is open to all of our members (member companies may send a representative). If you’d like to attend the meeting or assign a proxy, you ca…
Unlike Memorial Day, Veterans Day is designed to honor all of those in our armed services, not just those who died in service.Though Veterans Day is a U.S. National Holiday, Britain celebrates Remembrance Day on the same day (both holidays began to hon…
Sandra Glaser Parrillo, 2011 Insurance Professional of the Year Award Winner Donald F. Vose, President of the Board of Trustees for The Insurance Library Association of BostonI’m afraid this blog languished while we worked on the Education Fair in Sept…
In light of the satellite expected to fall to earth, there’s an interesting article on slate about insurance coverage for falling satellites: http://www.slate.com/id/2304426/
We’re overwhelmed with preparations for two big events this fall. The first is our Education Fair,scheduled for Thursday September 8th. We’d love it if you stopped by the Library to explore some of our course offerings, get education counseling or just to take a look at some of our spruced up classrooms. We’ll have refreshments and drawings for some great prizes as well as insurance-related items free for the taking!
We’re also working on preparing printed invitations for The 10th Annual Insurance Professional of the Year Award Ceremony printed this week so that we can mail them out next week. We have 26 tables already reserved, leaving 9 still available (if you’re interested, you should probably act soon!).
Since we’re so busy and I’m finally making a blog entry, you might think I would be popping in to discuss hurricane-related subjects– a lively wind vs. water debate, perhaps. You’d be wrong though. I saw something interesting on the web and thought I would share it here for those who are interested. This spring, I wrote on earthquakes and one of the earthquakes mentioned was the one in New Zealand which damaged Christchurch Cathedral.
They’ve come up with a unique solution for an interim church. They’re creating a cardboard cathedral. The architect has built similar structures in Japan, following their earthquake. You can read more about the solution here, here and here. I think (though I might be misunderstanding the model) that they’ll even have stained glass windows. It’s not a cheap solution, but it is supposed to last for a decade, at which point they hope to have a suitable replacement.
For those of you disappointed we didn’t talk about hurricanes this time, I leave you with a link to this article. It reminds me of a scene from Low and Behold, an independent film dealing with claims adjusters in post-katrina New Orleans. There’s a point in the movie where the main character attends a claims adjuster conference and the leader says:
I used to lay in bed at night and pray to God that he would bring a natural disaster on this country, a disaster so large as to bring massive property damage. No one would get hurt or die. But it would yield the largest claims the industry had ever seen.
The director said that he’d actually heard this speech given when he was training to be a claims adjuster but that no one believed him. Perhaps he wasn’t making it up. . .
Still disappointed? How about this article from the New York Times which mentions:
While insurers have typically covered about half of the total losses in past storms, they might end up covering less than 40 percent of the costs associated with Hurricane Irene, according to an analysis by the Kinetic Analysis Corporation.
The first year I started at the library was also the first year the library hosted The Insurance Professional of the Year Award Ceremony (for a history of the award please refer to this post). It’s with much pride that we’ve reached the 10th anniversar…
The last real blog post here discussed wedding insurance. In the course of another research project, I came across an interesting letter from the Department of Insurance in Lansing, MI dated April 9, 1931. The letter discussed speculation in marriage f…
Dear readers (if there are any left). I am so sorry I’ve failed to write for so long. There are lots of things currently in the works here at the library (stay tuned for updated information on the Insurance Professional of the Year Award Ceremony and a…
