For Halloween: A Ghostly Tale of Greed, Double Indemnity Policies, and the Gallows. By Jorge Alexandria - October 25, 2025 This is the season when the macabre, insurance, and entertainment meet. In keeping with that spirit, this is a tale that starts with a dead, beautiful, young, blonde manicurist.  There’s a pair of double indemnity life insurance policies. And a philandering husband. While this story may read like fiction, none of it is made up.  This makes it all the scarier.  It was August 5, 1935 when 27-year-old Mary Busch James turned up dead — apparently drowned in the fishpond behind her La Crescenta home. Investigators surmised it was an accident believing she had gazed into the water when she suffered a “fainting spell” and fell forward, bashing her head on the concrete water basin on the way down. Read More

The Hard Hat Turns 106; But its Impact on Industrial Safety Never Gets Old By Jorge Alexandria - August 31, 2025 Loss Control Corner: Since the dawn of time, humans have found ways to protect themselves- whether for survival, play, work, or war. On the latter, helmets were a crucial part of warfare for thousands of years. However, it wasn’t until WWI when a doughboy with the U.S. Cavalry, Lt. Edward Wheatley Bullard, climbed out of a French trench with an idea that would spark an industrial safety movement: the hard hat. Read More

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