A professional home inspection often servers to find any home construction defects of which the buyer must be made aware prior to completing the purchase. Home inspections have become more popular in recent years, as 95 percent of purchased homes underwent an inspection in 2013, compared to only 75 percent twenty years earlier. While most […]
A woman in Colorado was reportedly arrested three times in one week for driving under the influence. Kimberly Micheloni, a 40-year-old office manager for the Internal Revenue Service, was arrested for the third time on May 20 and charged with driving under the influence, careless driving and two counts of contempt of court. She was […]
A bill proposed in the Senate would require the Internal Revenue Service to turn over debt collection records on back taxes to private collection agencies. The provisions of the bill would call for all “inactive tax receivables” to be assigned to private debt collection companies if the IRS is unable to find the owing taxpayer. […]
All the recent hailstorms lately—Denton, Frisco, Dallas, Killeen, McAllen, Eagle Pass, etc.—have reminded me of an issue I’ve been meaning to blog about for quite a while. I first ran into this “patching” or roof repair issue when I was working as an independent insurance adjuster for State Farm and USAA. We would be instructed […]
The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision to pass on reviewing a city ordinance that prohibits the renting homes to undocumented immigrants could affect the status of similar immigration laws in other parts of the country. The ordinance in place in the small town of Fremont, Nebraska, requires that renters apply for a permit, pay […]
I noticed about a week ago that all the males in our Houston office were sporting goatees. Are we starting a new trend or just following the herd
http://www.theonion.com/articles/how-to-prepare-for-hurricane-season,35966 As the Onion article above shows, we must always keep hurricane preparedness a priority. Our most prized possessions are depending on it! Actually, almost all homeowners policies have a very low sublimit for collectibles. If you really do have a collection of rare items, firearms, gold, coins, stamps, etc., it’s worth discussing it with […]
A recent report in USA Today illustrated the extent of physician drug abuse in the medical community. The report illustrated how doctors, nurses, anesthetists and other medical professionals have engaged in systematic theft and abuse of prescription drugs, including Percocet, Vicodin and Oxycontin. The report has raised concerns among medical professionals, insurance companies, patients and […]
Former patients and their families are attempting to place a measure on the November ballot that would revise a 1975 law that places caps on non-economic damages in California medical malpractice cases. The Troy and Alana Pack Patient Safety Act would raise the limit on damages due to pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases […]