Yesterday afternoon I discovered Ben Glass’s post from September 18, 2009, Hulk Hogan Sues His Lawyers. In his post, Ben Glass recounts the tragedy of Nick Bollea’s serious automobile accident when he was 17. A passenger in the vehicle was permanently injured. Terry Bollea’s (aka “Hulk Hogan“) is Nick’s father. Unfortunately, at the time of the accident the Hogan family only had $250,000 in auto insurance coverage Read the rest of this entry »
Lost in all the debate about healthcare reform and the government option is our experience with workers’ compensation. According to Mark Jablonowski, an analyst at Conning Research & Consulting, twenty five percent of all workers compensation in the United States is written by Workers Compensation State Funds even though these state funds only write in 25 states. Read the rest of this entry »
The Insurance Research Council (IRC) anticipates that the recent economic downturn will trigger a sharp rise in the number of uninsured. Despite a decrease in percentage of uninsured nationally from 14.9 percent in 2003 to 13.8 percent in 2007, the percentage of uninsured may now grow to one in six drivers nationally by 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, I was caught in traffic and like many drivers I was annoyed by the delay. As my car inched forward, I discovered that the delay was caused by a multi-car collision. Ashamed of my previous annoyance and concerned for the victims, I reflected on another tragic accident in Urbana Ohio caused by Jason Skaggs in 2007. Read the rest of this entry »