During the last legislative session, the Excess Line Association of New York proposed and the Senate passed legislation that would allow the establishment of domestic excess line carriers in New York. At first blush this sounds wrong. By their very nature excess and surplus line insurers are “non-admitted” foreign or alien companies that can only […]
We are accustomed to Newspeak from the federal government, in which words have the opposite of their traditional meaning. For example, there’s what I call UCA, the (Un)affordable Care Act. But now the problem is metastasizing to supposedly conservative publications and nominally free-market think tanks. In an article in The Weekly Standard, Eli Lehrer, president […]
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 […]
For a man who deals in complexities, Joe Petrelli’s life has been a straight line to success. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, he graduated from The College of Insurance and had his first full-time job in Syracuse, New York. Joe earned a Masters of Business Administration from The Ohio State University in 1986, […]
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 […]
When politicians promote the superiority of their government plan to “replace” ObamaCare, my reaction is simple: I don’t care what a mugger does with my money. The difference between the thought processes of the Austrian economists and those of other schools is this: the Austrians say in essence that they don’t care what you do […]
Bea and Ben Aden purchased a vacation condo in western New Jersey and were looking forward to some peace and quiet in the country. When their unit was devastated by fire, what they got was exasperation and expense. First they were faced with the ordeal that any homeowner must deal with following a fire, but […]
It has long been accepted that the “compensation culture” that arose in the U.S. about 40 years ago has in this century taken on global dimensions. A simplistic but accurate description of a compensation culture is a society in which most injuries can be traced to a causal agent from whom damages for the harm […]
Fioravante “Fred” Perrotta died this past July. His New York Times obituary (July 28, 2012) focused on his public service as a key aide to Governor Rockefeller in the 1960s and later as part of Mayor Lindsay’s administration, including an unsuccessful run for city comptroller. In between those two lives, however, Fred played a significant […]
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