About This Blog

Last week, we posted the 1,000th post to Reinsurance Focus. For any blog to reach that status, two factors must be present: (1) content that appeals to a sufficient number of readers; and (2) a dedicated staff of writers. This blog has drawn a good deal of interest from a broad range of readers from a number of countries, from insurance and reinsurance companies, brokers, law firms, academics, hedge fund personnel, editors of other blogs, on-line and print media and others. Frankly, I have been somewhat surprised but gratified by the number of readers that read our blog posts every month. We hope that we can continue to provide our readers with content of interest. I encourage you to use the e-mail link below to share with me your comments and suggestions for how we can make the next 1,000 posts of even greater interest to you. Obviously, this blogmaster has not written 1,000 posts. Thanks to Lynn (a writer from nearly the beginning and our every other week editor-in-chief) and writers, Karen, John, Dan (who is leaving us this week to take an in-house position), Brian and John. We could not have done this without each one of you. Thanks again, and I hope to hear from you, our readers.

Rollie Goss, blogmaster.

Welcome to the new format Reinsurance Focus. We have moved some of the sidebar content to tabs across the top of the page for easier navigation and viewing, and added additional content in the tabs. Our blog search function now features advanced Boolean search capabilities and highlighted hits. We have also added an area with additional content with password only access for subscribers. All readers can see the type of content available in the Subscriber Only area, but will need the subscriber password to see the actual content.

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We recently experienced a hardware problem and a problem with our e-mail subscription service that resulted in an interruption of our e-mail update service to our subscribers. We have resolved the problem, and are moving to a different e-mail service to ensure greater reliability. When we make the move to the new service, our existing subscribers may receive a Welcome e-mail asking you to re-confirm your subscription. Please do so. Please go to Reinsurance Focus to see the content that was not forwarded to you druing this interruption in the e-mail service. We apologize for this interruption.

We are also in the final stages of upgrading our blog generally, which will feature an easier to use navigation system. The upgrade also will permit us to offer selected additional content only to those who subscribe to our e-mail updates. The initial offering will be a short free webinar on the proposals to “modernize” the regulation of the reinsurance industry coming from both the NAIC and the Obama Administration. If you are not a current subscriber, and are interested in receiving such content, please subscribe to our blog below. Existing subscribers need not do so to receive notification of such additional content.

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We are upgrading Reinsurance Focus at the end of this week. You will see a new look and new features to provide added value to our readers. The changes include:

• A different look, which is pleasing to read and helps us more effectively utilize the screen space to convey information to our readers.
• A hyperlinked table of contents near the top of the side bar, with periodic links in the side bar back to the top of the page, to provide more efficient navigation. A “NEW” flag will be posted for two weeks by the titles of side bar items that have been amended, so that you can more easily find new content.
• A new substantive feature towards the top of the side bar titled “Treaty Tips,” which provides guidance for the drafting of reinsurance agreements. A new “tip” will be posted approximately once a month.
• More frequent Special Focus posts, which provide treatment of a topic of interest in greater depth than our normal blog posts. John Pitblado is the editor for these posts, and John would appreciate suggestions for topics of interest to our readers.
• If you open an individual post by itself, you can e-mail that post to a colleague with a comment.

We hope that these changes improve your experience with our blog. Thanks for visiting us!

This post written by Rollie Goss.