Posts tagged recession

• Insurance Companies Driving Profits at Consumers’ Expense

  David Mittleman | December 16, 2011 1:01 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Historically, insurance companies were an efficient way to spread the risk of loss among many people, all of whom pay premiums into the system and each of whom would be compensated for a covered...

• Insurance Companies Like to Give Out Umbrellas When It's Sunny, But Take Them Back When it Rains

  David Mittleman | May 24, 2012 8:55 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We hear a lot about the number of uninsured Americans in the news and the danger of going without health insurance. What we hear about less often is the fact that even the Americans with...

• Starbucks CEO Tells Politicians to Stop the Bickering--Or Else

  David Mittleman | September 06, 2011 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I don't drink his coffee much, but I have to agree with the recent ad/open letter that Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, had published in the New York Times and USA Today. Addressed to his Fellow...