Author: Joshua Brabant The Progressive Corporation, known as the Progressive Casualty Insurance Company through its subsidiaries, provides personal automobile insurance, and other specialty property-casualty insurance and related services in the United States. Jack Green and Joe Lewis co-founded the company in 1937 which is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio. Progressive Insurance insures about 12 million…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant Laura Landro in her article in the Wall Street Journal, Surgeons Make Thousands of Errors reveals that “researchers at Johns Hopkins say that despite efforts to improve surgical safety, 4,044 so-called “never events,” including leaving a foreign object such as a sponge inside a patient’s body, occur in the U.S. each year.”…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant Amica Mutual Insurance Company is an American Mutual Insurance company which sells automobile, homeowners, marine and personal umbrella liability insurance and was founded in 1907. It has its headquarters in Lincoln, Rhode Island, and is one of the few remaining large-scale mutual insurance firms that consistently ranks highly in JD Power and…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant Liberty Mutual Group, more commonly known as Liberty Mutual, who’s slogan is “responsibility, what’s your policy” is a global insurer and the third largest property and casualty insurer in the United States and is based out of in Boston, Massachusetts. It employs over 45,000 people in more than 900 locations throughout the…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant Safety Insurance, a subsidiary of Safety Insurance Group (SAFT) is a provider of private passenger automobile insurance in Massachusetts. Safety Insurance Group also offers property and casualty insurance products, including commercial automobile, homeowners, dwelling fire, umbrella and business owner policies. They were incorporated under the laws of Delaware in 2001, but have…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant COMMERCE Insurance was founded in 1972 in the south-central Massachusetts town of Webster where the company is still located and headquartered. In June 2008, The Commerce Group, Inc. was acquired by MAPFRE who is Headquartered in Madrid, Spain and is the largest insurance group in Latin America and has a presence in…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant GEICO is the third largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States, providing auto insurance coverage for more than 11 million policyholders and insuring more than 13 million cars. Since 1996, it has been a member of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway group of companies. Since May 18, 2009, GEICO began providing…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant A very important question that a car accident attorney should ask his client is whether he has had any previous accidents whereby he was injured. Irregardless of what type of accident it was in the past, it is still highly important to inform your attorney about what previous injuries you have suffered.…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant If you were in a car accident or have fallen victim to any other type of personal injury where you were forced to put the claim into suit and now Defense Counsel for the other driver has sent you a notice of Deposition there are a certain number of tips of practical…
Continue reading ›Author: Joshua Brabant If the insurance company is telling you that your car damage is minimal and therefore, your bodily injuries also must be minimal and of little value or consequence, you should read this article. In Dr. Arthur Croft’s article, Study Confirms Flaws in Standard Defense Strategy for MVC Injury, he states, that “motor…
Continue reading ›
