Archive for August, 2010
Hard To Get On Track!
Wow, what a day. I normally can focus on a topic and try to coherently share my thoughts on one life insurance subject or another, but today life is just gobbling up the energy I had set aside for that.
Tomorrow, three weeks after my wife’s hysterectomy, we are finally meeting with an oncologist to let […]
Hurricane Earl Expected to Drench East Coast; Some Evacuations Possible
Powerful Hurricane Earl churned toward the eastern U.S. seaboard Tuesday and looked to sideswipe the densely populated coast from North Carolina to New England, the U.S. National Hurricane Center …
BP Claims Fund Pays Out $10 Million in First Week Under Feinberg
Kenneth Feinberg, who last week took over the claims process for BP Plc's Macondo well oil spill, has so far paid nearly $10 million in emergency payouts to Gulf Coast residents who have suffered …
Earl Becomes Major Hurricane
Hurricane Earl – a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale (sustained winds 111-130mph) – is currently bringing heavy rain and high winds to the northern Lesser Antilles Islands in the Caribbean as it makes its way toward the west-northwest near 15 miles per hour.
According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the center of Earl […]
Surplus Lines Bills Await Schwarzenegger’s Signature
The California Legislature has passed two surplus lines insurance bills that have been sent to Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
AB 1708 (Villines), sponsored by the California Department of …
AIR Tracking Typhoon Kompasu, Tropical Cyclones
According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, the sixth, seventh, and eighth named storms of the northwest Pacific season are approaching the Asian mainland bringing high winds and …
Lexington to Insure Tax Credits on Low Income Housing
Lexington Insurance Company, a Chartis company, has introduced its Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) First Party and Professional Liability Insurance program. The program is designed to …
Homeowners give thieves a sporting chance
Specialist home insurer Hiscox has commissioned research which reveals that homeowners are exposing themselves by leaving valuable sports equipment, unsecured, in gardens and garages.
The goods, with an average value of £770, are left in gardens and car boots by 53% of the professionals surveyed.
More than a quarter (26%) also admitted that their gardens and outbuildings […]
Oklahoma Prepares to Liquidate Pegasus Insurance Co.
A judge in the District Court of Oklahoma County in mid-August issued an order of liquidation with a finding of insolvency for workers' compensation provider Pegasus Insurance Co. Inc.
Oklahoma …
New Jersey Court: Construction Worker Can Sue Employer
New Jersey workers' compensation laws do not prevent a construction worker injured in a trench collapse from suing his employer, a state Appeals Court has ruled.
The lawsuit — which was …