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LinkedIn’s Reinsurance Claims Group is 100 Members Strong!

August 24th, 2010 Reinsurance Claims, Reinsurance Claims Group, Reinsurance Social Media Comments Off on LinkedIn’s Reinsurance Claims Group is 100 Members Strong!

 On July 30, 2010 we announced the formation of LinkedIn’s Reinsurance Claims group. (Post here)  On August 14, 2010 we introduced the co-managers of the group:  Nigel Shepherd, Robert Bear, Marc Lanzkowsky, Theresa Hajost, Bill Hook and me.  (Post here)  Today we are happy to report that we admitted our 100th member after having been in existence for less than one month!

The group actively discusses issues concerning U.S. and international ceded and assumed reinsurance claims.  It enables members to share information; discuss and debate issues; access a number of excellent reinsurance- and insurance-related blogs; and network with others in the domestic and international reinsurance community.  

The group welcomes new members, and encourages (but does not require) active participation.  The only requirement for membership is a bona fide interest in reinsurance claims.  The group is not a forum for, and does not permit, advertising or blatant self-promotion, so our members need not be concerned about being subject to sales pitches and the like. 

If you are already a member of LinkedIn, please click here to apply for membership in the group.  If you are not a LinkedIn member, please click here and you will be guided through the process of creating a profile (which does not need to be completed in one step).  Once your profile is started, and you have a user name and password, you can click here to apply for membership in the group.  Joining LinkedIn is free, as is joining the group.

We look forward to meeting you online!

[Editor’s Note:  If you are also interested in reinsurance and other types of arbitration and mediation, then we invite you to join LinkedIn’s Commercial and Industry Arbitration and Mediation Group, which is now over 900 members strong.  (Post here, which contains information on how to join.)]

Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum is a LexisNexis Top 50 Insurance Law Blog for 2009!

August 17th, 2010 Reinsurance Social Media Comments Off on Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum is a LexisNexis Top 50 Insurance Law Blog for 2009!

On June 27, 2010 we announced that the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum had been nominated to be one of LexisNexis Insurance Law Community’s Top 50 Insurance Law Blogs for 2009.  (Post here)  Yesterday LexisNexis posted its list of the Top 50 Insurance Law Blogs for 2009, and we are happy to say that the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum made the final cut!   (Read LexisNexis’s post here.)

We are also pleased that The Claims SPOT — an excellent insurance and reinsurance claims blog owned by our good friend and fellow LinkedIn Reinsurance Claims group co-manager, Marc Lanzkowsky — also made the top 50 list.  Congratulations, Marc and keep up the great work! 

Making LexisNexis’s Insurance Law Community’s Top 50 list is a great honor and privilege, and we would like to thank the LexisNexis Insurance Law Community for selecting The Claims Spot, the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum, and the 48 other great blogs that made the list.

Announcing a New LinkedIn Group: Reinsurance Claims

July 30th, 2010 ADR Social Media, Reinsurance Claims, Reinsurance Social Media Comments Off on Announcing a New LinkedIn Group: Reinsurance Claims

Readers know that I own and co-manage with other ADR professionals LinkedIn’s Commercial and Industry Arbitration and Mediation Group.  (See most recent post here.)   For some time, however, I have been planning to start a LinkedIn group that focused on reinsurance-related matters, and on July 28, 2010, my good friends Nigel Shepherd and Robert Bear and I took the plunge and formed Reinsurance Claims. 

After being in existence for only two days, the group has grown to 38 members, and our good friends Marc Lanzkowsky, Theresa Hajost and George Simpson, IV have  graciously agreed to join Nigel, Robert and me on the co-management team.  We intend to publish a shortly an article discussing the backgrounds and credentials of our very talented and diverse team. 

The group is a forum for the open discussion of issues and sharing of information concerning ceded and assumed reinsurance claims in the U.S. and overseas markets.  Topics of discussion may include, but are not limited to the presentation, adjustment, processing, settlement and payment of ceded and assumed reinsurance claims; claims dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, mediation and other forms of ADR; commutation; handling claims for a company in run-off; handling claims for an active writer; collections, including collections from companies in run off; comparative claims practices and procedures (e.g., London versus U.S. market); claims issues pertinent to insurance insolvencies; and coordination between the claims department and other departments of the company.  The group welcomes members from both the U.S. and international community.

Persons who should consider joining the group include in-house claims professionals; in-house and outside counsel; claims consultants and experts; actuaries; reinsurance arbitrators and mediators; brokers with claims responsibilities; and anyone genuinely interested in learning more about the subject.  The purpose of the group is information sharing and professional networking.  

The group welcomes new members, and encourages (but does not require) active participation.  The only requirement for membership is a bona fide interest in reinsurance claims.  The group is not a forum for, and does not permit, advertising or blatant self-promotion, so our members need not be concerned about being subject to sales pitches and the like. 

If you are already a member of LinkedIn, please click here to apply for membership in the group.  If you are not a LinkedIn member, click here, and you will be guided through the process of creating a profile (which does not need to be completed in one step).  Once your profile is started, and you have a log-in name and password, you can click here to apply for membership in the group.  Joining LinkedIn is free, as is joining the group. 

We hope you’ll join up!

Diane Levin’s Mediation Channel Reminds Us to Blog Responsibly

February 19th, 2010 ADR Social Media, Reinsurance Social Media 3 Comments »

Diane Levin’s blog, Mediation Channel recently posted “Blog responsibly:  a public service reminder for dispute resolution bloggers,”  in which she recommends that ADR bloggers to follow three important rules: 

1.  Create good content.

2.  Be social.

3.  Don’t plagiarize. 

This sage advice applies not only to ADR blogging, but to serious blogging in general.  And Diane’s Mediation Channel is a fine example of a blog that sticks to these important principles. 

Diane was also kind enough to mention the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum — along with several other, excellent ADR blogs — as “examples of [blogs that] .  .  .  make the ADR blogosphere a great neighborhood to hang out in,” and which “consistently honor[]” her three principles of responsible blogging.   We were, of course, flattered by this mention, and thank Diane for her support of not only our blog, but of the many other great ADR blogs with whom we are honored to keep company.

Diane’s comments made me reflect on the question whether there is a cohesive reinsurance blogging community in place, and, if not, what we could do to help foster one.  There is unquestionably a very social and accomplished group of bloggers that cover ADR-related topics.  While there are a few blogs out there that regularly cover reinsurance-related matters, there are not that many, and they do not interact as much as one might think they would.  There are exceptions to this rule — we’ll make it a point to survey the “reinsurance blogosphere” in the near future  and report to readers on what is out there — but, let’s face it, compared to the ADR blogosphere, the reinsurance blogosphere is still pretty undeveloped.  

I think reinsurance bloggers could learn much from ADR bloggers.  In the coming weeks we’ll give some thought to how the reinsurance blogosphere might improve itself.  And we’ll draw on Diane Levin’s teachings, as well as those of other accomplished ADR bloggers.