One of the things as I get older, but not old, that I notice is how much people enjoy hearing the stories of how it was when this industry started. I had a really great dinner the other night here in Scottsdale when the Selective Settlements group had their annual meeting and many of the life markets showed up for dinner and golf. I had the good fortune to sit across from Dan Durbin of Allstate, who many of you know was a long time Cambridge Gallaher producer, and over the course of the evening we got to talk about old mutual clients, adversaries, strange cases and the often crazy people who started this industry that we now call our own.

I decided to add this separate blog page to solicit some of the stories and experiences others in our industry had, as well as use it for the kick off to our weekly podcast called Settlement Round Table. SRT is going to be for and about settlement professionals, and dedicated to practice management, industry news, introducing producers from various firms and reviewing the direction of our business from the level of the average producers.

Let me know what you think of it and i'll get things started in a day or two with some new posts to show you what i'm looking for here.