Will recent trends in natural disasters drive up insurance rates?

By Mike Switzer

Published December 6, 2024 at 6:30 AM EST

Robert Hartwig, professor and director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia

Recent hurricanes have inflicted not only hardship and economic loss in our state, but maybe big increases in insurance premiums according to our next guest. Mike Switzer interviews Robert Hartwig, a professor and director of the Risk and Uncertainty Management Center at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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