Declarations and Exclusions

Decs & Excs and the Giant Peach

The entire Editorial Staff of Decs & Excs -- every last one of me -- will be in Atlanta, Georgia, from Saturday October 22 through Tuesday October 25, attending the Annual Meeting and Seminars of the CPCU Society.  Any new and intriguing insurance law insights gleaned from the proceedings will likely be reported here. 

Should any of this weblog's readers also be attending, or otherwise be strolling among the Peachtrees on those same days, feel free to drop an e-mail in my direction, as I would welcome the chance to meet such reader(s) face to face.

Adjustments in Progress

Yes, a new color scheme has been applied to this weblog.   (I might have gone with a pre-designed template, but the best one has already been claimed by Martin Grace at RiskProf.)  New posts of substance are sure to follow.  After all, I am being hounded by the press in the Comments section over my lack of freshly-minted insights or credible alibis for the recent dearth thereof.

A Maxim of Jurisprudence?

Do not be fooled by appearances.

Notwithstanding the month-long gap in new posts, this weblog has not subsided into oblivion.  Professional demands -- and an inclination to think of and to write about and to participate in Matters Other Than the Law when those demands permit -- have resulted in the reduced output here, despite the fact that our California courts and legislators and regulators have themselves been busy busy busy generating decisions and enactments that would merit comment here.

New and better posts -- new posts, at least -- are on the way.  Stay tuned.

Absence

The author of this weblog is away on a computer-free family vacation.  Regular or semi-regular posting will resume during the week of June 20, 2005.

Thank you for reading Declarations & Exclusions.

Y'All come Back Now, Y'Hear?

Hello, reader.

You will perhaps have noticed that there have been no new posts here in over a week.

The obstacle has been -- as happens to so many weblogs from time to time -- the intractable demands of the universal nemesis, Real Life.

You can fill in the details: many days in court; many hours toiling on research and briefing; enjoyable but time-consuming forays to the Annual Meeting and Seminars of the CPCU Society, held earlier this week in Sunny [rainy, actually] Los Angeles . . . All of these and more have kept me from posting.

Hope [of further posts] springs eternal, however. There are cases backing up waiting to be reported, there's a scandal a-brewin' (or seeming to be a-brewin') in the insurance industry. There are, in short, abundant topics for upcoming posts. Bear with me, if you will, Don't Go Away and I will -- as they say on the tube -- Be Right Back.

A Brief Note About This Weblog

Posting on this site has been more than somewhat irregular of late: more than two weeks have passed since the last new item and similar gaps occurred throughout the month of March.  In large part, the gaps have been driven by a shortage of new cases from the California appellate courts that would be, in your humble editor's judgment, of particular relevance to the areas this weblog covers.  This is not a weblog with a large cotery of regular readers in the sense of browsing through regularly to see what is newly posted: the vast majority of this site's traffic is generated by search engines, so most readers pass through only once to browse whichever article has turned up in the search result.  There has been, consequently, somewhat less pressure on this site to "post for the sake of posting."

Still, one of the points of a weblog is to maintain a reasonably steady stream of new, current content and there is little purpose to be served by letting a weblog languish for lengthy periods.  So, readers should take this post and those shortly to follow as signs of a renewed resolve to make this more of a destination for repeat visitors and less a haven for the ad hoc, one-off, reader (although that reader is as welcome as any other).  The likely upshot will be somewhat less straight reporting of new case developments and somewhat more comment and personal tone.

Ready?  Here we go . . . .