When you’re cleaning your house, should you be more scared of your washing machine or your vacuum cleaner? If you had to choose, should you ride with a teen driver or a 90-year-old driver? Insure.com asked Fred Kilbourne, an actuary with The Kilbourne Company in San Diego, to provide answers to pressing questions about our [...]
According to a recent survey, there’s a common type of workplace theft — and it has nothing to do with missing office supplies. Twenty-nine percent of employees interviewed said that a coworker has taken credit for their idea. Those who steal the limelight from their more deserving colleagues may get away with it, too: 51 [...]
Driver fined $4,000 for lying about crash A North Vancouver man who totaled his boss’s truck, and then lied to police about it being stolen, has been fined $4,000 in B.C. Provincial Court. Judge Jane Auxier had no sympathy for Rodney Dean Johnson, 26, who lied to ICBC and the RCMP repeatedly. The Judge doubled [...]
What can your place in your family tell you? According to some researchers, birth order can affect how people deal with risk. Dr. Melayne McInnes, an associate professor in economics at The Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, and her student, Erica Morgan, found that first-born siblings tend to be [...]
A New York man, frustrated with the lack of customer service he received from the Bank of America, has launched a lawsuit against the bank and its board. Dalton Chiscolm’s lawsuit seeks $1,784 billion trillion, or nearly $1.8 sextillion. Mr Chiscolm said that he is entitled to the money after he received inconsistent information about [...]
