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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: Re: Life insurance
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Date: 9 Oct 90 19:56:39 GMT
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stein@dhw68k.cts.com (Rick 'Transputer' Stein) writes about IEEE life insurance:

>The thing that pissed me off is that they sent a blood test kit, and would
>not underwrite a policy for $400K without it.

That's not the half of it.  I applied for IEEE-sponsored disability insurance,
and discovered that they didn't want the _results_ of a blood test; they wanted
my _blood_.  Not only did they want to invade my privacy, they didn't tell me
what they were testing for, and they didn't say whether they were going to tell
me the test results.  They could even store my blood and not bother to test it
until much later, after I file a claim.  Needless to say I canceled my
application and got my initial deposit back.

Does the IEEE actually condone insurance company behavior like this?