October 31
Insurance and Dementia
You read that right …and it’s serious. The Geneva Association is co-hosting and organizing a conference with Sun Life on insurance and dementia in Toronto, on 14 and 15 November. The conference will focus on dementia, its current and future costs and the role of insurance in covering this risk. Speakers will touch upon the […]
Lessons learned from Irene (and Lee)
Recently, I played in a golf tournament hosted by Andover Insurance at the Wheatley Hills Golf Course in East Williston, N.Y. Scott Brekne, Regional Marketing Representative at Andover always runs one of the most prestigious outings of the year. In his next life, he should come back as an event planner! It was a nice […]
Visions of the Presbyterian Dissent Encouraging Fraud by Shouting “Gotcha”
The old adage that “today’s dissent is tomorrow’s majority” is a powerful concept – one that sometimes comes to fruition. However, very often a dissent, while not becoming tomorrow’s majority, makes bold predictions of what may become of a majority’s holding. One not too distant dissent – a dissent whose predictions were dismissed by the […]
Health Insurers Agree to End “Secrecy” Insurers with 85% of market agree to make rate increase requests public
Benjamin M. Lawsky, Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services, announced that Aetna Health, EmblemHealth, Empire HealthChoice, Excellus Health Plan and HealthNow joined UnitedHealth Group in agreeing to end the secrecy over requests for increased health insurance rates. After the Department recently notified health insurers that it planned to make the rate increase filings public, […]
Schiff to Receive American College’s Highest Honor
Distinguished graduate and champion of the nation’s leading financial services educator, Albert J. “Bud” Schiff, CLU®, CAP®, has been selected to receive The American College’s highest honor, the Huebner Gold Medal. The ceremony honoring Mr. Schiff will take place during The College’s annual President’s Dinner on Friday, December 2, 2011 at the Smithsonian National Museum […]
Liberty Mutual Boosts Safety Initiative
For the 10th Year in a row, Liberty Mutual Insurance has supported key efforts to improve workplace safety, donating $30,000 to the American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Foundation toward the Liberty Mutual Safety Research Fellowship Program. This program encourages research activities in occupational safety and health, and provides a forum for safety professionals to […]
Qualifying For Handicapped Permit: Diabetes not Approved Matter of Jacobson v New York City Dept. of Transp.
In this Article 78 proceeding, petitioner, who undisputedly has type 1 diabetes, challenges the determinations of the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) denying his application for a Parking Permit for People with Disabilities (PPPD). He alleges that the determinations made by […]
