My retirement dinner was held at the top of the Bank of America building. Soon before retirement, Carolyn forwarded me this email: Thought you might like to see this excerpt from an email Jennifer just wrote me. Don’t tell her I sent you this: “Things at work are really strange now…every time Vera and … Read more
I was a frequent invited speaker at insurance conferences. I was the keynote speaker for the National Association of Attorneys General Insurance Conference. I was the most requested speaker at Casualty Actuarial Society Meetings. Below is a partial list of my speeches: 2006 “Auto Rate Evasion” IFM 2006 “From Class to Individual Rating” CAS 2006 … Read more
Personal Journal Insurers Find Religion, and Profit Firefighters, Churchgoers Receive Discounted Rates Amid Search for Lower Risk By Lavonne Kuykendall Dow Jones Newswires Updated Jan. 7, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET If you attend religious services regularly — or work as a firefighter, or drive a station wagon — your insurer might want to cut you … Read more
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
In 1994 Quality Planning signed the first of a series of contracts with the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) to address their insurance fraud problems. For more than 10 years ICBC was the largest QPC customer. I generally traveled to Vancouver once a month for five days, although trips were often more frequent and … Read more
Following political fights with the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), QPC lost most of its business. The company was reduced to Gail and me. We went after fraud control business in the auto insurance market. In this we teamed with Coopers & Lybrand. We had to give up most of our office space and moved … Read more
In December 1980 I moved to Washington to take a position at Applied Management Sciences. I served first as statistician then as project director on a large number of federal policy studies. The company averaged about 160 employees with very high turnover. It was at AMS I obtained the skills and connections that created the … Read more
During the summer of 1970 I worked in Santa Monica as the “new father” to a young man with schizophrenia.
In junior high I worked as a janitor at Foster’s Freeze. I also had paper routes for the Lodi News Sentinel and the Stockton Record. In high school I was a janitor at Ward’s. In the summer of 1965 I was a farm worker on a crew run by a Mexican woman who lived next … Read more
