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From: jdr@telematic.UUCP (James Robanske)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: insurance companies
Message-ID: <125@telematic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 19:37:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 30 19:37:42 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Oct-83 07:54:06 EDT
Organization: Telematic Products, Inc., Redmond, Wash.
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	How many people out there have been victimized by insurance
	companies?  Let me relate a short story..
	
	I had not had a moving violation for 5 years, and have never
	had a motor vehicle accident.  My wife hadn't had a moving
	violation for 8 years, or an accident for 13 (she has only 
	had 1).  
	
	In Aug. of '82 my wife was given a speeding ticket for going
	32 in a 25.  The fact of the matter is that she was coasting
	down a steep incline (in a non-residential area), and there
	was a cop at the bottom waiting for her.  1 month later she
	was involved in an accident ($150 damage), during a chain-
	reaction, rush-hour type fender-bender.  Due to the setting,
	the state patrolman declined to issue her a citation.
	
	Our insurance company decides that our account has seen too 
	much activity, and promptly cancels us.  
	
	Now it costs us 4 TIMES AS MUCH FOR LESS COVERAGE.  What the
	hell do we pay insurance for anyway?  Why should these bozos
	have the right to operate in this fashion?
	
	Seething in Seattle,
	
	J. Robanske
	(jdr!telematic!fluke!uw-beaver!decvax)