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Insurance law blogger grabs WSJ attention

December 5, 2007

Insurance Coverage Law BlogLexBlog client and insurance lawyer, David Rossmiller, has been getting plenty of attention in the media covering insurance stories. Comes as a result of David’s Insurance Law Blog. The last couple days its come from the Wall Street Journal.

Yesterday the WSJ Baw blog named him law blogger of the day. Today David’s picked up in the WSJ hard copy in Nathan Koppel’s story, ‘How Scruggs Case Engulfs Life of an Insurance Blogger.’

One of the more unlikely figures to have emerged as a prominent voice on the saga in Mississippi involving famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard ‘Dickie’ Scruggs is an insurance lawyer in Portland, Ore., who’s never set foot in the state.

Somehow, in between his day job as a law-firm partner and his night job as a husband and father to three young children, David Rossmiller blogs about insurance. These days, he’s 95% focused on the Scruggs affair, in which he has no formal role. On the matter, he has been cited in publications including the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Los Angeles Times and the online magazine Slate.

The blog, insurancecoverageblog.com, began in early 2006 as a repository for Mr. Rossmiller’s thoughts on the insurance industry. But earlier this year, he says, he delved into the coverage battles involving Hurricane Katrina victims and State Farm Insurance Co., which he found ‘absolutely fascinating.’ He weighed in on court decisions, focusing largely on clauses in many homeowner policies that, asserted lawyers for policyholders, State Farm was using to justify denials in coverage.

For lawyers sitting on the fence about doing a blog or who may be listening to the blog naysayers, give David a call. Talking to him, which I did yesterday, is inspiring to the last. It leaves you with little question that a well done law blog focused on a niche in which the blogger engages in the online conversation can change one’s life dramatically, both professionally and personally.