Our publisher Steve Acunto writes his editorial Foreword on page 4 of each issue and gives the industry one of its best read, often quoted columns.
The New York State Legislature should avoid major tax hikes in this year’s state budget, including a three-year surcharge on multimillion-dollar incomes proposed by Governor Cuomo. The Empire Center’s senior fellow, E.J. McMahon, made a cogent case against the hikes in testimony offered recently in Albany. “Raising taxes on the highest incomes to raise revenues […]
Objective Technical Expertise As so many in business today strive for social relevance and for a place in the sun that shines through social media, we must applaud The American Academy of Actuaries, the people who are the brunt of jokes about personality and senses of humor – not true by the way. The AAA […]
$80-billion pandemic of insurance fraud Here are the headlines: Homeless New Yorkers are targeted in a $31.7 million slip-and-fall ring … A crime ring burns and floods dozens of homes. … A sober-home mogul trades sex for drugs. Meet the “winners” in the Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame, the nation’s most brazen convicted insurance scammers […]
I had to read it twice. Hard to believe it. See if you get it the first time. In a motion made by Park Insurance to have the NY State Supreme Court vacate its order placing Park into Liquidation, the initial text reads as follows: Respondent Park Insurance Company (“Respondent” or “Park”) respectfully submits this […]
Homie, a fast-growing full-service real estate technology company has announced the expansion of its affiliated company Homie Insurance to Southern Nevada, “saving homebuyers time and money in securing home insurance”. Point is, as they state in a press release, “Homie continues to reinvent the homebuying experience and now, its affiliate Homie Insurance has launched in […]
Had enough of them, yet? I mean Zoom meetings, conferences, artificial wine gatherings, coffee clatches, other people’s living rooms, the lingering suspicion that, below the nice shirt and tie, there are pajama pants under the desk, the incessant scheduling and pinging…and the invitations and the details? Well, I have, and necessary evil or not, I […]
With a touch of real sadness, we present the effects of COVID -19 in this issue in a set of articles that we believe will prove useful and interesting. The art and science of underwriting relies upon levels of predictability that often include an irrational “gut” sense on the part of the professionals assessing risk. […]
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Commendably, New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Linda A. Lacewell announced the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has launched DFS FastForward, a new program to support innovators seeking to deliver new solutions in financial services, FinTech, InsurTech, and HealthTech for New Yorkers in the COVID-19 era. “As New York begins re-opening, […]
Whether or not a particular policy contains an explicit exclusion for pandemics or some similar condition, misses the point: there is no federal pandemic backstop, as there is for Terrorism. And, by the way, if you follow the early line from the White House, it may have been purposefully motivated, i.e. terroristic in nature.. This […]
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