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Posted today (10 hours ago)
Today's McPaper reports that almost 3 years ago, State Farm warned the Feds that there seemed to be some "sudden acceleration" issues with some Toyota and Lexus models. The Bloomington, Illinois-based insurance behemoth "notified NHTSA in late 2007 that it was seeing an increase in sudden acceleration trends with other" vehicles from the Japanese automaker.

A decade before that, State Farm also led the way in "
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Posted today (13 hours ago)
One of the varied uses of permanent life insurance is to pay estate taxes at a discount (since insurance dollars never cost as much as "real" ones). FoIB Joe Kristan takes that a step further, reporting on a proposal that would allow non-dead (not to be confused with "The UnDead," or the Grateful Dead) to prepay their estimated "death taxes."

Interesting proposition, and definitely worth reading.

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Posted yesterday.
I’ve noticed a very important shift in market research. Leading-edge firms are relying less on traditional statistical analysis and more on what I’m calling “Contextual insight“ which I’ve defined as Observations drawn from data that resonates with an understanding of the business To understand the difference between these paradigms, let’s look at an example: A company with a quality problem. Here are two scenarios: Scenario #1: Statistical analysis. The market research [...]
Tags:   contextual insight, customer experience, market research, voice of the customer
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Medical Terrorism


Tags: Universal, single payer