J.D. Power recently published a report on the state of the Property and Casualty Insurance industry. The report highlights that while the insurance industry has evolved over the years, the pace of change in P&C insurance is rapidly increasing. Insurance is now less about serving the needs of traditional business, and increasingly about navigating and responding to social, political and… Read more →
Author: Allyn Weimer
Which states have the highest taxation? (You might be surprised.)
It’s that time of year again: tax season. Adding further to the discomfort of tax season is the stress over the looming costs of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the implications of that cost on our government and public service infrastructure. Who will pay more to cover the cost of relief required over the past year? Which sectors will get less… Read more →
Fire Departments assisting insurance innovation
“InsurTech”, the combination of “insurance” and “technology” emerged around 2010 following the wave of “FinTech”. As an old industry, technologists began to see the field of insurance as ripe for innovation. In the first decade, a lot of InsurTech companies were consumer facing, those designed to give users faster, easier access to insurance, for example, or algorithms to help customers… Read more →
Volunteer departments bracing for financial crisis
Volunteer departments across the country are bracing themselves for a financial crisis as traditional forms of fundraisers are cancelled as a result of Covid-19. Local and national news sources in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana, Mississippi, New York and others are reporting upon the serious challenges threatening the safety and survival of their volunteer departments. While volunteer departments in New York… Read more →