Author: Benstirk

[ad_1] The insurance industry faces an image challenge. Plaintiff attorney highway billboards and websites routinely disparage insurance companies as fat, greedy and collusive. One plaintiff law firm website declares that “at the end of the day, the liars, cheats and the frauds are the insurance companies, their fake doctors, and lawyers who sold their souls to the devil by being hired to confuse, mislead and deceive the jury.” Consumer advocate groups such as the Consumer Federation of America declare “insurance company greed is the real inflationary pressure facing policyholders.” A former insurance commissioner once even insulted the industry’s workforce, suggesting…

[ad_1] My sister-in-law of nearly 15 years isn’t someone I’d seek as a friend but she’s mostly enjoyable to be around. However, a couple of years ago she started making harsh claims about her parents – my in-laws, whom I adore. I didn’t agree with what she was saying but chalked it up to some sort of personal crisis and tried to be supportive, but without agreeing with her. However, not long after that she made a harsh claim against my young child and was unkind to my husband (her brother) in the process. She also decided she needed time…

[ad_1] We list the best IaaS providers, to make it simple and easy to outsource your IT platform and network to a cheaper third-party.Best IaaS provider of 2024: quick menuIn the internet’s early days, it was much more difficult to build your own web service. You had to buy and maintain your own servers or enter binding long-term contracts with data center operators. This arrangement was inconvenient for most businesses, and the costs were high, meaning people weren’t too willing to take risks. However, cloud computing providers changed the game.Cloud computing platforms operate servers and rent them to customers on…

[ad_1] This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Winter weather is just around the corner. To reduce the risk of hazards, winter preparation is essential. Now is the time for building mangers to ready their premises and for drivers to winterize and equip their vehicles for winter driving conditions. Now is also a great time for fleet managers to remind drivers of safe driving techniques during winter conditions. Wintertime building preparation As weather-related risks head our way, building owners and facility managers should review safety policies and procedures, update incident response plans and ready their…

[ad_1] Long before Dave Myers, one half of the TV duo the Hairy Bikers, was hairy, or a biker, he was a cook. While still a child, he prepared family meals when his mother, a former shipyard crane driver, became so debilitated by multiple sclerosis she was scarcely able to leave her bed. “Dad and I became Mam’s carers, muddling through each day,” said Myers, who has died aged 66. “Sometimes I got out a cookbook and made a pie or a stew out of whatever ingredients we had in.”His mother had been “a fabulous cook and was often preparing…

[ad_1] It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult.What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently. But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching…

[ad_1] On January 12, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced a bill, the “Incorporating National Support for Unprecedented Risks and Emergencies (INSURE) Act.” The stated goal of the bill is to “stabilize the home insurance market while ensuring vulnerable communities are not excluded from coverage.” The bill would achieve this by creating a “federal catastrophic reinsurance program to insulate consumers from unrestrained cost increases by offering insurers a transparent, fairly priced public reinsurance alternative for the worst climate-driven catastrophes.” The underlying premise of the bill is revealed in one of the four endorsements of the proposed bill seen in Congressman Schiff’s…

[ad_1] Commanding the stage in an all-white suit and looking like a Graham Greene character or a televangelist, Rick Doblin, an unlikely guru months shy of his 70th birthday, welcomed a roaring crowd to “the psychedelic twenties”.Doblin is the founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps), which sponsored last summer’s Psychedelic Science conference in Denver, Colorado, where more than 12,000 people gathered for the event.Since first experimenting with LSD as a college student in Sarasota, Florida, Doblin has been convinced that psychedelics are an antidote to the world’s greatest threat: the capacity for evil, greed and…

[ad_1] Trying to get a hold of a Fujifilm X100VI? You’re not alone. This much-hyped compact fixed-lens camera is shaping up to be the most successful launch of 2024 right now, with demand massively outstripping supply.It’s not a huge surprise, given the popularity of its predecessor, but most stores are currently fulfilling orders for the Fujifilm X100VI on a first-come, first-serve basis. That means if you order today, you may be able to secure yourself a relatively favorable position in line. We’ve outlined the best retailers just below, and we’re also aiming to update this page with the latest news…

[ad_1] This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. AgentSync’s partially humorous take on industry prognostication It wouldn’t be December without a new crop of industry prophecies for the coming year, now would it? While we appreciate the effort that each company, analyst, and thought leader puts into crafting their 2024 insurance industry forecast, we also know that trends can change with the wind and no prediction is written in stone. Take the “Y2K crisis,” for example. Sometime in 1998, people started predicting a huge computer meltdown when the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. Companies around…