About Us

Barbara Marquand is a writer with more than two decades of experience reporting for newspapers and national trade and consumer magazines. She has been covering the insurance industry from a consumer perspective since 2009.

Beth W. Orenstein is a freelance writer working in Eastern Pennsylvania. She writes for newspapers, lifestyle magazines and trade journals. She specializes in real estate and medical topics. She graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in Medford, MA., with a degree in English.

Ed Leefeldt is an award-winning investigative journalist whose stories have led to changes in credit card practices, voter registration and the "Son of Sam" law. As the insurance correspondent for Thomson Reuters he wrote extensively about Hurricane Katrina, and as a senior writer for Bloomberg he covered topics ranging from industrial espionage to computer hackers and fraud. His Bloomberg articles won two consecutive New York Press Club awards and he was a national finalist in the Investigative Reporters and Editors contest. As the "hot stock" reporter for Dow Jones, he broke the story about then U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani removing Wall Street traders from their offices in handcuffs. Ed is the author of two books. The Woman Who Rode the Wind is a novel about early flight. His non-fiction book, In Search of the Paper Children, exposed the foster care system and was instrumental in passing legislation to help children.

Jennifer Nelson is a lifestyle writer who's written for hundreds of print and web publications over the past 15 years including MSNBC, AARP, Parade, Glamour, O, The Oprah Magazine and many others. She frequently writes about health, home, auto and life insurance.