Law blogger David Rossmiller featured in insurance trade journal today

Just got word from Portland’s David Rossmiller – an attorney with Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue LLP who writes the firm’s Insurance Coverage Law Blog – that he was quoted in another insurance news article this morning. The piece was published by A.M. Best, an insurance trade journal that delivers real-time insurance news over their BestWire newswire.

The article, written by A.M. Best’s Washington bureau manager Raymond Lehmann, is titled “Two Years After Katrina, Congress Still Looking for Catastrophe Solutions.” David’s expertise comes in about halfway through the article:

David Rossmiller, an insurance coverage attorney with the Portland, Ore.-based firm Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue, suggested the storm set the stage for a populist backlash both in Congress and in the courts, and that the industry has mounted a very poor public relations counter-offensive.

“Katrina stirred up something that is lying just below the surface and is something every lawyer remembers who represents insurers — most people hate insurance companies,” Rossmiller said. “Mostly they hate them in a generalized, nonspecific way, but with some catastrophe like this, it is very easy for some to focus on specific companies and the public is ready to believe anything about them.”

This isn’t the first time the press has considered David an expert in his field. He says: “These days on average I’m quoted in about two media stories a week, not counting blogs.”

As both a lawyer and an expert on insurance matters, David’s blog gives him a defined space in the blogosphere, where both journalists and readers who come across this attorney’s name can validate his expertise. We at LexBlog offer our congratulations to David and the rest of the staff at Dunn Carney, as they continue to make ways around the Internet.