The awards, accomplishments, speaking engagements and news of the distinguished faculty of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law:
Professor Alexandra Lahav has been named a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Lahav, the Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law at UConn School of Law, will pursue a project entitled “Epidemiology and the Future of Tort Law.” Read more.
Professor Alexandra Lahav has been named the 2019 recipient of the Perry Zirkel '76 Distinguished Teaching Award. Read more.
Professor Peter Kochenburger organized and moderated a presentation entitled "The Regulatory Response to Insurtech" at the 2019 Ratemaking, Product and Modeling (RPM) Seminar of the Casualty Actuarial Society in Boston on March 26, 2019. The seminar addressed such topics as as price optimization, use of Big Data in fraud detection or claim settlement amounts, and regulator treatment of complex pricing algorithms in rate filings.
Professor Peter Lindseth will speak on March 21, 2019, at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. His talk will be entitled "In the Shadow of Threatened Enforcement: Compliance and the Public-Private Divide in the U.S." The lecture was organized by RENFORCE, the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe.
Professor Jessica Rubin has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Animal Law. Rubin was elected at the association's annual conference on January 6, 2019.