Background
G. Barry Klein, CPCU, CLU, contributes articles on
risk and insurance history for IRMI.com. He likes to say that he really
doesn't have any interest in insurance history, he's just been around
long enough to remember it all.
Mr. Klein started in the insurance industry in 1959, working in a family
agency. He received a bachelor's degree in insurance from San Diego State
and did graduate work in insurance at UCLA. He was in the retail insurance
agency business, writing industrial commercial lines accounts, until he sold
his last agency in the early 1980s to develop QuickRate, the first national
commercial lines rating system. Mr. Klein has been in the automation side of
insurance ever since.
As an avocation, Barry maintains the Ultimate Insurance Links website, at
either www.ultimateinsurancelinks.com
or www.barryklein.com,
the oldest, largest, and best-maintained set of insurance links on the Web.