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Susan Essex

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
5
Latest publication
Sep 5, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Insurance Business America
Top 500K sites
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Jul 29, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Susan Essex

    The man who invented modern reinsurance just had his name deleted (opens the original)

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    This starts, of all places, with cotton. In the early 1900s, insuring baled cotton in American warehouses and gins was an absolute nightmare. A pool of insurers called the Cotton Insurance Association covered the risk between them, but the pool alone couldn't absorb everything, so it needed reinsurance on top. And reinsurance, back then, was a mess - renegotiated from scratch every single year, purely on the back of how bad the last harvest had been. Good year, easy chat. Bad year, brutal one. N

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Susan Essex

    The man who invented modern reinsurance just had his name deleted (opens the original)

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    This starts, of all places, with cotton. In the early 1900s, insuring baled cotton in American warehouses and gins was an absolute nightmare. A pool of insurers called the Cotton Insurance Association covered the risk between them, but the pool alone couldn't absorb everything, so it needed reinsurance on top. And reinsurance, back then, was a mess - renegotiated from scratch every single year, purely on the back of how bad the last harvest had been. Good year, easy chat. Bad year, brutal one. N

  3. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Susan Essex

    OpenAI's AI models teamed up to hack their way online. Then Meta admitted a breach of its own (opens the original)

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    OpenAI has revealed that its AI models messaged each other to work around the restrictions of a locked-down test environment. Days later, Meta became the third major AI lab in a month to admit one of its models had broken into another company's systems. For cyber and PI underwriters, three separate incidents in a matter of weeks is hard to write off as a one-off. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week, OpenAI researchers Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton set out how a chain of

  4. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Susan Essex

    OpenAI's AI models teamed up to hack their way online. Then Meta admitted a breach of its own (opens the original)

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    OpenAI has revealed that its AI models messaged each other to work around the restrictions of a locked-down test environment. Days later, Meta became the third major AI lab in a month to admit one of its models had broken into another company's systems. For cyber and PI underwriters, three separate incidents in a matter of weeks is hard to write off as a one-off. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week, OpenAI researchers Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton set out how a chain of

  5. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Susan Essex

    From candy striper to consultant: One woman’s prescription for a benefits industry in flux (opens the original)

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    Not many people in insurance trace their entry point back to a hematology ward. Susan Rider (pictured), senior human resources consultant at OneDigital does. She started out as a candy striper at her local hospital while still in high school, volunteering on the oncology unit before moving into cardiology. The hospital then put her through certified nurse assistant training, which opened the door to actual patient care. From there came an EMT certification and serious progress toward becoming a

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