How did you get into the insurance business, and what do you consider to be some of your career highlights to date?
After a brief career during and after college on the business side of the music business, I was seeking something different and was drawn into the wholesale side of the insurance business by a couple of friends that were in it and loved it. I never looked back.
For career highlights, recently, being honored by NAPSLO with the McAlear Industry Award a few years ago has to be one; there is nothing like recognition from your peers. In the early '80s, I conceived the idea that I could knit together a product liability form with an errors & omissions form to offer seamless coverage to a then-emerging new industry, biotechnology. For about five years, I offered one of only two facilities available to insure that industry and the form that I developed became the standard form used for decades to insure clinical trials and biotech. Heady stuff, for a young broker.
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Shawn Moynihan
Shawn Moynihan is Editor-in-Chief of National Underwriter Property & Casualty. A St. John’s University alum, Moynihan has earned 11 Jesse H. Neal Awards, the Pulitzers of the business press; seven Azbee Awards, from the American Society of Business Press Editors; two Folio Awards; and a SABEW award, from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers. Prior to joining ALM, he served as Managing Editor/Online Editor of journalism institution Editor & Publisher, the trade bible of the newspaper industry. Moynihan also has held editorial positions with AOL, Metro New York, and Newhouse Newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].
