What a difference a year makes in the world of ridesharing. Just 18 months ago, only one state (Colorado) had...
Articles by R.J. Lehmann
In the early 1990s, the insolvencies of three major life insurers – Executive Life, Mutual Benefit and Confederation Life –...
In the home of the Pilgrims, lawmakers have gone home ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. The Massachusetts Legislature has adjourned...
In his seminal 1987 work Crisis and Leviathan, economic historian Robert Higgs traces the pattern of government growth as a...
Earlier this week, I covered South Carolina’s “1,000-year storm,” questioning whether we can actually say with any kind of certainty...
Over the weekend, the nation saw the horrific toll of massive flooding across South Carolina, which has left at least...
Federal disaster aid granted to communities hit by natural catastrophes causes demand for property insurance to fall by six times...
I hate to say I told you so. Actually, scratch that. I love to say I told you so. I...
The California Earthquake Authority long has had trouble getting Golden Staters to buy protection for the most devastating natural disaster...
The federal excise tax does not apply to reinsurance or retrocession transactions between foreign insurers, even if the transaction covers...