June 4, 2014 – When I began my insurance career more than thirty years ago, I started out as a Homeowners Claims Examiner. Then, as today, the job involved investigating a policyholder’s claim for damages and, once coverage was verified, paying the claim subject to any limitations, policy provisions and company procedures. If hail damaged…
May 16, 2014 – The law firm responsible for filing the very first law suit in the nation against DePuy Orthopaedics alleging an artificial metal-on-metal hip the company manufactured was defective, announced today that the landmark $2.5 billion settlement negotiated last November has been accepted by the required number of plaintiffs and can now proceed….
May 1, 2014 – Today our firm celebrates Law Day in honor of our many friends, clients and business partners who serve in the legal, insurance and law enforcement communities and related fields. Some excerpts from Public Law 87-20 ” … a special day of celebration by the people of the United States … ……
April 8, 201 4 – According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, approximately 12,000 new cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) are reported each year with motor vehicle crashes accounting for a plurality of those reported since 2010 (36.5%). In what is being heralded today as a major scientific breakthrough, paralyzed patients may…
April 7, 2014 – If you’re tired of those boring life expectancy tables that lump everyone into two categories – male and female – to estimate how long you’re most likely going to live, have we got a calculator for you. The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator is a free online, interactive tool which…
April 1, 2014 – Five years ago, in the midst of the greatest economic calamity in more than three-quarters of a century, Finn Financial Group opened its doors for business with a pledge to help others “achieve maximum financial success and security through the effective use of structured settlements and other specialty annuity products and…
March 25, 2014 – With the reality of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 now coming into focus, families and friends of those lost on that ill-fated flight will begin the long, personal and very painful journey of grief processing. Nothing prepares anyone for the sudden loss of a loved one. There are no classes, no books,…
Reprinted from our March 5, 2014 newsletter: Structured Settlements Changing Lives Looking for proof that structured settlements change lives? Then please take a few minutes to watch this short video of Robin, a woman whose touching first person account of her journey following the untimely death of her husband underscores why so many people –…
February 28, 2014 – For years, many “experts” in the financial advice-giving business have cautioned clients to shy away from annuities when it comes time to getting serious about retirement planning. Setting aside the possibility that this bias against annuities may have more to do with lack of education or a personal financial self-interest that…
February 9, 2014 – I don’t remember when I actually heard my first Beatles song but I distinctly remember the anticipation leading up to their February 9, 1964 debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” I was eight years old and hadn’t been this excited since the year before when I learned that cigar-smoking chimpanzees were…