Severe convective storms (SCS) are emerging as a major driver of U.S. property insurance costs, with large hail events alone damaging nearly 600,000 homes in 2024, according to an analysis by CoreLogic. SCS weather events, which include damaging hail, tornadoes, straight-line winds and derechos, are becoming a significant driver of insured natural disaster losses across … Read more
Kevin Docherty, partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, has been selected by The Daily Record as one of Maryland’s power players for the publication’s 2025 Business Law Power List. The Power List showcases Maryland leaders who are guiding key organizations and making long-lasting and sustainable impacts on their colleagues and surrounding communities. The competitive list … Read more
For years now, dividend tax rates have been increasing. In addition investors have been hit with a massive reduction in the already miserly tax-free dividend allowance. Let’s run through the current dividend tax rates and allowances. We’ll then consider how we got here, and what you can do about it. Dividend tax rates and allowances … Read more
Addressing challenges of security, cost and complexity tied to IoT device deployment at scale, the FIDO Alliance recently launched a new, open IoT standard that enables devices to simply and securely onboard to cloud and on-premise management platforms. Called FIDO Device Onboard (FDO) for IoT, the new specification was collaboratively developed to solve the issue … Read more
Many people think of colon cancer as a disease that only affects older people. But in the past 30 years, the rate of colon cancer among younger adults has risen rapidly. “So far, researchers don’t know why younger people are experiencing colon cancer more frequently,” said Theodore Levin, MD, a Kaiser Permanente gastroenterologist and cancer … Read more
