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• Trading Gas Mileage for Safety?

  John Hopkins | December 19, 2006 4:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Americans who are trading in their gas hogs for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles may well be trading in the safety provided by many of those larger vehicles as well. According to a recently-released study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, "[o]nly the Versa earned the top rating of "Good" for front- and side-impact protection as well as for whiplash protection in rear impacts."...

• The Law of Large Numbers

  John Hopkins | December 11, 2006 10:49 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The "law of large numbers" is the theory upon which all insurance exists. Essentially, it says that if you can put enough "risks" together, then the majority can pay the claims of the minority. It relies on the idea that, in any large group, it will be the minority who suffer some sort of loss and submit an insurance claim. The larger the group, the more likely that premiums paid by the...

• First, Physician Do No Harm

  John Hopkins | December 08, 2006 2:18 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Three years ago, insurance companies and rabid tort reformer physicians convinced the unsuspecting public that tort reform was needed to reduce malpractice insurance rates being paid by physicians. They told the public that victims of medical negligence were simply litigious and that trial lawyers were greedy. They told the public that if tort reform was not passed, they were all leaving Florida...

• Babies should not be left asleep in car seats

  John Hopkins | December 08, 2006 1:18 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The British Medical Journal reporst that babies left in car seats to sleep may be at risk for suffocation. Apparently, because babies' heads tend to loll forward, pressing the jaw against the chest and this can cause the already relaxed throat muscles to permit severe airway constriction. The study group stressed that the findings should in no way cause people to fail to use car seats for...