Nineteenth century attorney Russell Conwell earned more than $6,000,000 delivering his famous "Acres of Diamond" speech. He said that riches are right in front of us, although most people spend their lives looking far and wide.
It's the same with workers'...
African nations agreed to resume U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen on Monday after a half-day suspension, accusing rich countries of trying to kill the existing Kyoto Protocol. "We're going back," Pa Ousman Jarju from the delegation of Gambia, told Reuters after a...
A recently released report from the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) produced some eye-opening statistics regarding dog bites. According to the study, dog bites account for one-third of all homeowners' insurance liability claims, costing $387.2 million in...
Insurance Journal launched a new video series at the beginning of the year entitled "Watching the Risk." The premise of the series is the uniqueness of every industry and the insurance and risk management issues specific to each type of insured.
To date, IJ has...
Ask any agent who has suffered through an errors and omissions (E&O) suit and they will provide sage-like insight into the professional and even personal trials created by such an ordeal. I recently met an agent whose agency just four months ago closed the last of...
Attorney Stephen Goldberg penned a brief Blog on the Collateral Source Rule on November 25, 2009. Within the Blog, Goldberg provides a link to the case he references.
Click here to read his post on the Collateral Source Rule.
US and European studies seem to jointly conclude that the average adult attention span is somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes. Of course, this span varies among individuals and is shortened or lengthened by such factors as the listener's:
Interest in the...
Many clients don't like to talk with us about insurance, much less want to read a letter addressing their insurance. However, there are times when we have to reduce a discussion to writing (either in a letter, email, IM, or whatever form it takes) for any number of...
Spoilage coverage is most commonly thought of in relation to restaurants and other such establishments. But the need for spoilage coverage goes far beyond food-based risks; in fact, there is a myriad of risk types that need the protection offered by the Spoilage...
Markel Risk Solutions, based in Glen Allen, Virginia, is offering campaigns a multi-line, admitted insurance product that will cover campaigns if, for example, a campaign employee gets into a serious car accident while working or a wealthy benefactress comes to a...
