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Avoid Professional Liability Insurance Claims – Webinar

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Adam BarungaJanuary 16, 2012

Webinar Reminder:

Lessons Learned: Practical Advice on how to Avoid Professional Liability Insurance Claims and Manage Professional Liability Insurance Exposures. Presented by our own President Mike Hall of Hall & Company, this presentation will highlight the most challenging insurance claims and our approach to evaluating, negotiating, and managing those claims for our clients.

When: Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Time: 1:00 pm EDT/12:00pm CDT/10:00am PDT

This presentation has been approved for AIA Continuing Education credit (1LU).

Tags: Insurance Claims, Liability Insurance, Liability Insurance Claims, Webinar

SEC says Texas firm defrauded investors in life settlement transactions

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Adam BarungaJanuary 8, 2012

Federal securities regulators say a Texas-based life-settlement firm and three of its senior executives “systematically and materially underestimated the life expectancy estimates,” which in turn caused its shareholders to be “duped.”

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleges that Life Partners Holdings and its Chairman and CEO Brian Pardo, President and General Counsel Scott Peden and Chief Financial Officer David Martin misled shareholders by failing to disclose a significant risk to Life Partners’ business, according to the SEC.

In court filings, the SEC alleges that the company based its estimates on life expectancy, on which the price of a life insurance policy to investors is based, on a Reno, Nev.-based doctors estimates. That doct

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Tags: Settlement, Settlement Transactions

Dollars for Pennies Apiece

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Adam BarungaJanuary 3, 2012

This is what we sell in our industry. Dollars for pennies apiece. Dollars for future delivery at a time when they are needed the most. These are the proceeds received through life, disability and long-term care insurance.

Compare the premium paid per year to the ultimate benefit to be received at the time when you, your family or your business need it the most; at the time when the policy pays out the proceeds it was designed for.

Let me demonstrate what I mean.

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Tags: Apiece, Pennies Apiece

Medicare pay cuts and healthcare impact

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Adam BarungaDecember 7, 2011

The recent failure of the super committee to come to terms regarding the debt crisis has sparked considerable debate because mandatory Medicare pay cuts will now go forward. Physicians and hospital administrators are warning that the cuts are likely to have a considerable impact on U.S. healthcare; many doctors may drop Medicare patients and hospitals might be forced to trim their staff and consolidate facilities. Some healthcare analysts, however, counter that the problem is not that physicians will be short-changed, rather that most will continue to be overpaid. In regard to hospitals, some analysts contend that the imminent cuts are not that significant and can be easily covering by streamlining hospital operations.

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Tags: Cuts, Medicare Pay, Medicare Pay Cuts, Pay Cuts

The Importance Of Life Insurance For Seniors

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adminNovember 29, 2011

Have you ever thought about getting life insurance for yourself? Most people don’t think about getting life insurance until it is either too late or too expensive. Even though most people wait for the wrong time to get it, it is still imperative that you have some form of life insurance to pay for any of your final bills and burial costs.

One of the reasons why life insurance for seniors is important is because at some point they will benefit from it. Most people think that buying life insurance is just a waste because all they are doing is giving money to their kids and the rest of their family. W Full Post…

Tags: life insurance

Severson & Werson’s First Friday Program Continues

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Adam BarungaNovember 25, 2011

Living in the Real World:

The Severson & Werson Construction Group will share the lessons from one of our recent design professional cases, with a focus on contractual formation and failure, non-performing contractors, and job-site safety.

Event Info

Join us at our San Francisco Office

One Embarcadero Center, 26th Floor

December 2, 2011 from 12:00 p.m.

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Tags: Severson, Severson Werson’s

Affluent Americans anxious, frustrated, acting on market worries

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Adam BarungaNovember 15, 2011

The number of market pessimists among Americas wealthy is slightly higher than optimists, according to a new survey.

Nearly half (47%) of the wealthy characterize the U.S. financial system as broken, while 84% believe the U.S. political system has serious flaws, the PNC Wealth Management survey found.

Pessimists (34%) now outnumber optimists (26%) when evaluating the prospects of their investment portfolios in the next six months.

The survey captures the anxiety and frustration of the economic and political environment that we are in, said Thomas P. Melcher, executive vice president and managing director of Hawthorn, the division of PNC Wealth Management that serves clients with $20 million or more in investable assets.

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Tags: Market, Market Worries

Does Insurance Cost More as You Get Older?

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adminNovember 12, 2011

It is a well-known fact that car insurance costs more for teenagers. Until you turn twenty-five you are considered a riskier driver, and so that twenty-fifth birthday offers you one more reason to celebrate in that you can now look forward to a lower premium on your automobile insurance. As you move into the middle stage of life where you marry and have children, your premiums will reflect you’re more stable, responsible life style, as well as your increasing experience behind the wheel.

Once you begin to progress into old age, however, some may wonder if that trend will reverse itself and you will begin to pay more for insurance. The good news is that as long as you remain a safe driver, which should not be the case. D Full Post…

Tags: automobile insurance
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