The Delaware County Press Club is honored to welcome Herb Denenberg, a nationally known consumer advocate, to speak on January 17, 2006, at the Towne House Restaurant in Media, PA. The public is welcome - - reservations should be made by 4pm on Monday, January 15th.

Luncheon Check-in: 11:45am
The Towne House Restaurant
Members with reservations: $15,
Non-members and walk-ins: $18

Menu: ravioli, chicken salad, or vegetarian platter

Contact the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) at 610-565-5563 or via email at RSVP@delcopressclub.org to make your
reservation and please note your menu selection.

If calling after 4 p.m. leave a voice mail message
(press #12) for Norma Testa-Walsh.

Note: reservations must be made
by Monday, January 15th at 4 p.m.

Herb Denenberg has been in the forefront of consumer advocacy since his days as Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, when he became nationally acclaimed for his Shopper’s Guides to Insurance and Health Care and for his other innovations and reforms.

Since then, he has been an award-winning journalist, on television, radio, the Internet, and in newspapers. His column is now syndicated and appears in Town Talk in Delaware County, the Bulletin in Philadelphia, and in other papers. His Web site is thedenenbergreport.org. Herb has won 40 Emmys for his television work, an award from the National Press Club for the “Best in Consumer Journalism,” an award for excellence in legal reporting from the American Board of Trial Advocates, and dozens of other awards.

He started his career as a professor of insurance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. There, he was named the first Loman Professor of Property and Liability Insurance, a chair named for the late Harry J. Loman, a distinguished insurance educator and scholar and a resident of Delaware County.

Herb also served as Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and was Special Counsel and Research Director of the President’s National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas, part of the Kerner Commission appointed by President Lyndon Johnson. The work of the Panel resulted in the adoption of FAIR plans, to provide property insurance not available in the regular market. He also drafted a plan to guarantee insurance for migrant workers being transported by bus.

Herb wrote the insurance laws of the state of Nevada; co-authored the Social Protection Plan of Puerto Rico, which has since provided auto insurance to everyone in Puerto Rico; served as Associate Director of the Wisconsin Law Revision Committee, which produced the most comprehensive revision of the insurance law in history; and has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Philadelphia School Board, the legislature of Alaska, the National Commission on Product Safety, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and many other government agencies.  He has been a frequent witness before Congressional Committees and government commissions.

Herb holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, a LL.M. from Harvard, a J.D. from Creighton, and a B.S. from Johns Hopkins. He is a CLU and CPCU, two insurance designations. He has also been awarded two honorary doctorate degrees from DeSales University and Spring Garden College. He has a listing in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Heathcare, Current Biography, and many other biographical references. He is the subject of a biography by Howard Shapiro entitled How to Keep Them Honest (Rodale Press, 1974).