Law360 launches Insurance Authority, hires O’Connor

Amy O'Connor

Amy O’Connor

Law360 has launched a new website called Insurance Authority and hired Amy O’Connor as a senior reporter for the site.

The site covers insurance news, including litigation, legislation and transactions.

O’Connor previously was Southeast editor for the Insurance Journal, where she worked for more than 11 years and covered specialty insurance news as well the Southeast with a particular focus on the Florida property insurance market.

Before that, she worked at Crittenden Research as an assistant editor.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Cal State-Chico.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.