Six Insurance Blogs Students Have Never Read
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! -Thomas Carlyle …….but just in case, carry a good insurance policy! Insurance, whether for healthcare (human or pet) or professional liability, there’s no denying the importance of it. If the insurance field is something you are pursuing, adding the following blogs will insure good informed reading.
1) Insure Blog
By: Henry Stern, Bob Vineyard and other contributing editors
Insurance Issues, Principles & Solutions
The primary focus for this blog is health and life insurance, although they do have the occasional P&C-related posts. Henry Stern says, “My motivation for creating the blog was pretty simple: I wanted – no, *needed* – a place to vent, and also to provide a resource for non-insurance folks to find information and answers (hence our motto: Insurance Issues, Principles and Solutions). We like to think that we’ve helped move the debate on health insurance/ObamneyCare (and there’s some evidence that this is the case), which the blog platform has made possible”. The most important work the very informative blog does is in their long-running “Stupid {fill in the blank} Tricks” series, which skewer carriers, government agencies, agents and consumers who, by accident or design, screw up in spectacular newsworthy fashion. Epic “oops” moments from homeowners, media, carriers and agents are dissected in the blog’s straightforward, often witty way. You will also find the authors are good about corresponding with those that leave comments.
2) Embrace Pet Insurance Blog
By: Laura Bennett
Pet Insurance is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of insurance but as Laura, author of this blog states, “no-one was talking about pet insurance on the internet and someone needed to speak up and show it can be a great product but historically had not been executed well. Frankly, back in 2006 when I started the blog, pet insurance wasn’t considered much better than alien abduction insurance and since new products were coming out to do a much better job of it, including ours, I thought a good start would be to talk from an actuarial and objective view on the product”. Laura is the Chief Embracer and Co-Founder of Embrace Pet Insurance and has worked in insurance for over 16 years. Writing the blog has become a self admitted addiction for her…in a good wayJ. Embrace Pet Insurance is an insurance program manager that designs, sells and manages pet health insurance policies for cats and dogs. The Embrace Blog touches on subjects from dental health to behavioral issues (and so much in between; even training cats to leash walk!). “This blog is my way of showing that pet insurance can be real, can be helpful, and can be interesting – yes, even interesting! I continue to write from the perspective as CEO of a successful pet insurance company and the first pet insurance actuary in the US. There is still a lot to talk about in the every changing industry”. – Laura
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3) Contractor Insurance And Risk Management Blog
By: John Sadler
Sadler & Company has specialized in insuring residential trade contractors, home builders, remodelers and light commercial general contractors since 1946. John Sadler, President of contractor-insure.com (a division of Sadler & Company, Inc.), is a published author and speaker on contractor insurance and risk management topics and author of the blog. It has been ranked in the top 50 best risk management blogs by an independent resource, PMP Certification Training. “My vision for the blog is to simply give our prospects and clients great content that is useful for their insurance and risk management decision making process. The best blog postings are re-circulated in our quarterly newsletters. In addition, those blogs that answer frequently asked questions are emailed to clients as a link whenever they have a question that is answered by the blog”.
4) Specialty Insurance Blog
By Bob Sargent
News & Commentary on Specialty Insurance, Risk Management & Private Equity – with an emphasis on professional liability and entrepreneurship in insurance
The Specialty Insurance Blog is managed by Bob Sargent, President of Tennant Risk Services and Managing Partner of Tennant Capital Partners. Posts are written by Bob, Tennant staff and other contributors. Sargent states, “We are a wholesale insurance broker specializing in professional liability insurance and our clients are retail insurance agents and their professional insured’s. Our business is based on a high level of expertise in technology, errors & omissions, directors & officers and employment practices insurance. The purpose of our blog is to provide useful information to our clients on the professional liability insurance business, particularly information that they would not normally see”. The blog provides periodic information on the insurance business, with a focus on specialty lines insurance and professional liability. With an interest in entrepreneurship, private equity and venture capital in insurance, the blog will also include information on building insurance businesses.
5) eHealth Insurance Blog
Get Smart. Get Covered. Health Insurance Information and Answers.
This is a very well laid out, easy to navigate, organized blog that covers many topics in the health insurance field. eHealthInsurance was founded in 1997 and its technology was responsible for the nation’s first Internet-based sale of a health insurance policy. Licensed to market and sell health insurance in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, eHealthInsurance has developed partnerships with more than 180 health insurance companies, offering more than 10,000 health insurance products online. Suzanne Thomas, Public Relations and Social Media Manager for eHealthInsurance writes, “Our blog is designed to help people find the best information possible on health insurance and related issues. We provide news, research and information about health insurance for individuals, families, small groups and the Medicare-eligible”. The entries are posted by many different authors and topics range from basic insurance questions to discussing specific health issues. Some authors choose the question and answer format, some just straightforward information laden write-ups. The entries are personable, easy to read and informative.
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6. GoHealth Blog
By Erinn Springer
This blog is meant to help clear the mist surrounding health insurance, a great read for beginning students and even non-insurance students! Erinn explains the inspiration behind the blog, “The GoHealth blog is written to help consumers understand the complexities of health insurance and health care reform. One of the main drivers of the blog is the realization that many consumers don’t understand their health insurance policy. As more consumers are shifted from group health plans to individual, there is going to be this greater need to create educated consumers who know how to use their plan effectively.”
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Much like insurance offers peace of mind, so does the valuable knowledge that these bloggers post. Insurance: important because the cost of NOT having it can be much more than you can afford. If you are a student headed down the insurance field path add these blogs to your studying, reading or just basic information gathering of online research, you can’t afford not to.
