Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!101!460.0!David.Moran From: David.Moran@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (David Moran) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Insurance companies Message-ID: <15336@bunker.UUCP> Date: 2 Nov 90 03:59:57 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: David.Moran@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:101/460.0 - VI/BUG, Holbrook MA Lines: 18 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 11453 Just want you to know that someone else is VERY aware of the problem. This is really a Disability Civil Rights issue. CHALLENGE the insurance company. Ask to see the acturarial tables on which they base their decision in this case. Do all communications by registered letter. Keep copies of all letters TO and FROM. Go to your state legislator with the facts and EVIDENCE which you can now provide. It may be too late in your particular case, but now that you see the need get the system changed for others. Your state legislator can write state laws that will mandate that if the company wishes to continue to do business in your state they MUST play by the rules. YOU help write the rules. Lay out to your legislator the facts as you have done here, and show them the correspondence (or lack of responses to YOUR letters). YOu can make things different. -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!101!460.0!David.Moran Internet: David.Moran@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org