Actuary Helped Form Workers’ Comp, Social Security, Casualty Actuary Society
Since the insurance industry and its actuaries tend to be politically conservative, it might surprise people to know that it was an actuary who influenced the beginnings of workers’ compensation, Social Security and what is now the Casualty Actuarial Society. The actuary was Isaac M. Rubinow who moved to the United States in the 1880s […]
Workers’ Compensation Insurance Profitable in 2012
Private workers’ compensation insurers earned $6.20 of profits for every $100 of net premiums. This is according to the article, Workers’ Compensation Insurance Industry Underwriting Results Improve in 2012, which was released yesterday. Nationally, the industry’s operating ratio was 93.8 in 2012, down from 100.4 in 2011, according to author John F. Burton, Jr. who has been a […]
Setting Your Blog on Fire
The dream of every blogger is to watch their blog catch viral fire. I have enjoyed a week of the dream. Watching the hits climb was great fun. I would love to say that the blog’s success was due to my brilliant writing. But I am no fool. The blog’s success was more due to […]
A Source’s Comment on my F# Article
James Roberts of Innovative Architects blogs about F# and was a major source in my F# article. I want to thank him for his kind words in his recent post, “The Sleeping Giant Has Just Awakened!” which you can find at http://fsharpblog.com. Here is an expert from this blog: “I was recently approached by a […]
Discovering the Power of F#
F# has the potential to be a game changer in the U.S. insurance industry, according to my article, A Sharp New Analytical Tool, which was just published in Contingencies’ software supplement. If you have never heard of F#, you are not alone. It was developed in England for mathematical and analytic computations. The Microsoft programming […]
ObamaCare is Our Own Dang Fault
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,” — President John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961 I have been thinking a lot about Kennedy’s admonition as Americans are waking up and smelling the ObamaCare coffee. I am wondering why are Americans so shocked. Americans had been […]
Know Thy Competitors
Professional football players literally go head-to-head against their competition. To win, they and their coaches have to know their competitors as intimately as possible. They take notes on play patterns and the strengths and weaknesses of each player on the other team. Too often, however, business professionals become so focused on the greatness of their […]
Return to Work Tips from the Experts
Most of what I know about return to work comes from experts I have interviewed over the years. Even though returning injured employees back to the job requires effort, they contend that return-to-work is always better than allowing employees to just sit around collecting benefits. Besides, returning injured workers to work is simply the right […]
If You Have Mesothelioma, Lawyers Are Available to Help
Yesterday a blogger named Barbara O’Brien contacted me and requested that I run her blog on mesothelioma. I don’t know Barbara, but I did read her blog, which describes an executive who knowingly sent workers in harm’s way to make a buck. We all hate cases like this and want to see the book thrown at […]
Work is Risky, Even at the Navy Yard
When the radio announcer reported that people had been shot at the NAVSEA building in Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard, I felt a pit in stomach. My husband works there. I looked at the time, wondering if he was already at work. I tried to get ahold of myself. “Perhaps he had not arrived,” I hoped. […]
