Insurance archeology may be the science of recreating past insurance programs by assembling various types of evidence of insurance contracts, but the focus and methods used by different insurance archeologists vary. Unlike other disciplines for which standards and methods have been agreed upon by associations organized by practitioners, insurance archeology has yet to become standardized. The result is that various law firms, risk management firms and consultants provide different sorts of services under the same heading. All practitioners have the same purpose: the location and retrieval of evidence of historical insurance policies. Where they deviate is in (1) where they go to find old insurance records and (2) what they do once they go there to retrieve the policy evidence. Continue reading “Insurance Archeology is More than Insurance Audits”
