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Does living by church lower your risk of a car crash? SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Living by a church does wonders for a person’s driving record, but motorists who reside near a restaurant might want to say an extra prayer before hitting the road, according to the findings of an insurance industry study. The study … Read more
Name: Daniel Finnegan. Title: Founder and president. Company: QPC, a data analytics firm for auto insurance companies. HQ: San Francisco. 2005 revenue: $13 million. Number of employees: 40. Year founded: 1985. Source of startup capital: $150,000 federal contract with Department of Agriculture to design fraud- control systems for food stamps. Background: Earned Ph.D. in sociology … Read more
After ISO purchased QPC, we rented offices large enough to include space for other ISO companies.
Judith and I took a break from work to go to the Bahamas. We were on Long Island and Nassau. Judith had to rush off to London.
We visited Mérida and Chichén Itzá and stayed at the old colonial haciendas Uayamón and Temozón.
I spent 20 days in Cameroon traveling by bus, visiting Douala, Yaoundé, Foumban and Limbe.
Judith and I toured Sicily and then joined Sandy and Keith and Dave and Dianne on the Amalfi Coast.
Judith and I attended a Lucid Dreaming workshop on the Big Island and went to Kona Village.
By Kaja Whitehouse Dow Jones Newswires Updated April 7, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET Your occupation could be a plus for your auto-insurance rates. Insurance companies long have offered discounts to groups of people they see as good customers, a practice known as “affinity discounting.” Such discounts traditionally target structured groups such as employers, unions or … Read more
After about a year of negotiations, QPC was sold to ISO. The price was a $12 million base, plus $1 million a year for the first three years I was employed, plus three years of earn-out payments totalling $20.6 million, for a total of $35.6 million. Before the sale, an additional $750,000 in dividends was … Read more
