As some of you know, I've begun writing a book about insurance and technology. I've got a more descriptive title which I plan to keep under wraps until the book is finished near the end of September 2021. I'm grateful to Wells Media Group for agreeing to publish, market, and distribute it. They are quite… Continue reading Some Thoughts – Insurance and Otherwise – Triggered by COVID-19
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My COVID-19 Thoughts (All Opinions, Obviously)
Most people know that I'm a cynic, or is that a skeptic (?), and that part of me is only being amplified each day concerning COVID-19. I don't think there will be an effective (meaning efficacious) vaccine until 3Q2022 at the earliest. That means, if that time period is correct, that society won't get back… Continue reading My COVID-19 Thoughts (All Opinions, Obviously)
I am writing a book about insurance & technology
I have decided to write a book about the relationship between insurance and technology. Wells Media Group (WMG) and I have entered into an agreement where WMG will publish, market, and distribute the book as a paper book, ebook, and audio book when it is finished. I plan to keep the working title secret until… Continue reading I am writing a book about insurance & technology
Simplified Risk Flow of Commercial P&C Insurance Purchase
I'm not sure if this will help the many threads of whether Business Interruption (BI) should or should not be covered if the commercial P&C insurance policy excludes BI claims from being triggered by bacteria / viruses / pathogens but ... ... I thought an illustrative visual diagram of a simplified risk flow capturing the… Continue reading Simplified Risk Flow of Commercial P&C Insurance Purchase
COVID-19: A Few Thoughts
Society is faced with a pathogen that currently has no treatment and no vaccine. We each have to realize how highly infectious this pathogen is even though people may not be showing symptoms that they are infected. College-age youth, at least in the US, is demonstrating its collective stupidity, ignorance, and irresponsibility by gathering in… Continue reading COVID-19: A Few Thoughts
Seamless interconnections: The fragility of interdependence
"Pathogen outbreaks are an emergent property of global 21st century society," Dr. Richard Hatchett, Executive Director, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI), Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 13, 2020 As a society, we are obviously becoming increasingly more interconnected. Most of the time, we don't realize the fragility caused by our interdependence on our panoply of linkages and… Continue reading Seamless interconnections: The fragility of interdependence
Platform Possibilities for Insurance Sales
All of us - people and businesses - leverage, in some degree, the reality that the marketplace is rapidly becoming an interconnected mobile, digital network. IP-enabled smartphones and tablets (and watches), owned and used by millions of people across the planet, enable a never-ending flow of data, knowledge, and business transactions throughout this network. One… Continue reading Platform Possibilities for Insurance Sales
