Work At Home Vintage Employees LLC (WAHVE) is an interesting concept. Essentially, it is a domestic remote staffing service for insurance firms. There are some firms which provide for staffing and for services outside of the U.S. In this case, WAHVE employs the services of retired, semi-retired, or outside consultants to assist organizations with the […]
The mini saga of Ed Higgins’s experience vis-à-vis what he identifies as a misleading element in a direct writer’s internet sales program, gets a full, yet clearly one-sided airing in this issue. We have fact checked and read all of the materials provided to us by Mr. Higgins with respect to his experience and found […]
Governor Cuomo has had a busy month while the rest of us have been…busy. It is a difficult time to be an independent business with the economy and so many other pressures pending so work we all must. We did build it and continue to… In any case, it is good news that the Governor […]
Been a hot summer so far for this “bachelor” whose family is in Italy for July. From my occasional porch-perch overlooking the Hudson and from my more likely post, looking over your e-mails, press releases, letters and receiving VM messages and even the occasional anonymous letter, I have kept a number of news and opinion […]
The “pilgrimage” up to New Paltz, New York, to the formidable Mohonk Mountain Hotel and Resort in the Shawangunk mountains, was truly worth the trip, particularly as the NYIA gave its principal award this year to Cecilia Norat, a great favorite to this writer and a well-known person on these pages. I have said enough […]
In this issue of the Insurance Advocate, Steve Ruchman uses the word mensch which now possesses the universal meaning of “stand up guy”. This is not an expression new to insurance in these parts, given its provenance from the Yiddish quarters of New York. For many years, the insurance industry has been an unsung hero […]
In this issue of the Insurance Advocate Peter Bickford’s column premieres on page 12. Peter is a longtime, rather astute observer of the business, whose work we have featured with great pride over the years. We believe that, in keeping with the Insurance Advocate’s mission to observe regulation and legislation that affect the progress of […]
We continue to marvel at what our colleagues will invent, create and grow in the insurance sphere. Of course, not everything grows to full fruition, some things die halfway through their season, a fact of which we are reminded over and over again in our travels in the industry. I can not tell you how […]
When Easter, Passover, and the flowering of Spring all happen in the very same short frame of time, the pull of optimism is irresistible. While I do not quite agree with the legendary anthropologist, Sir James Fraser, that there is merely something instinctual about our assignment of Springtime to ritual change and transformation, I must […]
We received the news of a New York State Appeals Court decision upholding the ruling that independent insurance agents disclose their commissions to clients in a manner prescribed by the Insurance Department with mixed feelings. First, we did not believe that the lawsuit approach would prevail in New York State, and that the agents essentially […]
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