Katie Insurance School

The Katie School of Insurance and Financial Services at Illinois State University is looking to the industry and researchers to begin the process of generating an insurance wiki. A "wiki" is a web site that is created by the users of the site - anyone can contribute to a wiki. By involving the industry and other interested individuals, a wiki can quickly become a valuable source of a tremendous amount of information that can be cross referenced, catalogued, and searched by users.

We are looking to pioneers to begin developing some starting pages for the site. Some potential areas to begin writing about including (but not limited to):

• Description of various lines of business including new product designs
• Marketing and distribution methods
• Reaching specific demographics
• Ethics
• Contingent commissions
• Insurance regulation (historical, current, proposed, international)
• Reinsurance agreements
• Genetic testing in life insurance
• Managing catastrophe exposures
• Modeling cat risk
• Alternative markets
• Historical insured losses (Hurricanes Andrew or Katrina on insurers)
• Legislative responses
• State/national programs for funding cat losses
• Recruiting in the insurance industry

To help build the wiki, visit the Katie School wiki and click on the "+" to add an article.

For additional help on using the wiki, click here.