Are you as tired as I am of hearing the word “robust”? Everything is robust. You have a wine, it’s robust, you have fans at a baseball game who are robust, you have a new suit hanging on the rack at Brooks Brothers and the sales clerk tells you the color is robust. And on […]
As if the boundaries of exposure needed expansion, the American Medical Association has recognized obesity as a disease in the same vein that the American Psychiatric Association has diagnosed and reset a manual of mental disorders. What is happening is simple: more and more diseases, more and more illnesses are being translated into exposures for […]
EMANUEL LEVY, Editor of the INSURANCE ADVOCATE, and vice president and treasurer of The Roberts Publishing Corp. passed away in Ann Arbor, Michigan on August 18, 2013. He was born in the Bronx, N.Y. on April 11, 1918 and was educated in the public schools of New York City. He was graduated from Brooklyn College […]
In this issue in the Insurance Advocate we pose the simple one word question “Ready?” We refer here to the lessons of Super Storm Sandy and to the prospect in the future of an industry’s preparedness in the wake of it. We present testimony of Ron Papa before the N.A.I.C., which has many searching ideas […]
The Insurance Advocate has received several recent reports on the industry’s performance and on issues affecting insuring in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and the rest of the country in some cases. The most eye-opening of the recent disclosures was a crackdown by the New York DFS on what it has termed “shadow insurance”. We […]
Many of us attend seemingly endless board meetings, committee meetings, and council meetings; we may start to get bored, look at our cell phones, look out the window, get a water and generally get unwound by some of the monotony that is inherent in process driven circumstances. There are very few times in my life […]
In this issue of the Insurance Advocate we feature several different items worthy of note, not the least of which the names of those who are now elected to serve as volunteer leaders of the RAA and the IIABNY. We also feature a recent PIA survey’s results. In our last issue we presented a list […]
A new survey by Insurance.com called “Ticketmasters” ranks popular excuses drivers give to police when stopped for a potential violation. Among people who said they have used excuses when pulled over by a police officer, here’s how explanations break down: 1. I couldn’t see the sign telling me not to do it: 20.4 percent 2. […]
In this issue of the Insurance Advocate, I have taken the liberty of publishing an editorial that has gained quite a bit of attention with respect to the long-term implication of Ultimate Fighting in New York State. The long-term implications range from the further dumbing down of civility in our society to the power of […]
In the last issue of this publication, we ran a story that remembered with affection the late Cummin Clancy. The story was written by Brian and Brendan Clancy and appeared here in an In Memoriam column. Cummin Clancy taught me a lot early on in my career with respect to what it meant to be […]
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