MAY?


LOL.

Apparently you ain't from around here are you?

Soon to come on this board: a lot of liberals who believe that a combination of insurance companies and government agencies should be forced to insure multimillion dollar homes built just a few feet from the Gulf of Mexico. Liberals who are anxious to see their own insurance premiums raised, along with their taxes, so that multimillionaires can have their second or third homes rebuilt, in exactly the same place, where hurricanes come through in regular fashion.

Oh yeah baby!! a thread I can sink my teeth into. The bashing of insurance companies.

Let's go...........

"For instance, the company also announced Wednesday that it would boost a discount for customers that have their home and car insured by State Farm to 12 percent from 5 percent. About 80 percent of the company's homeowners customers also have auto insurance with the company"


this is probably a good idea, people who own a car will probably get in the car and get the hell out of town when the hurricane comes.

Id'd rather have State Farm than AMerican Family Insurance. Those Pricks are NASTY on the phone when I had 2 wrecks with their insured. It was their fault on both(Yeah I know Surprizing how I drive. they gave me NOTHING but grief. Now I had one with State Farm and within 48 Hours I had a cut check. I have Progressive now and boy talk about crazyness. I wished they had decent insurance companies like they used to have. Now they make You answer a whole bunch of stupid questions. Like that one time I was rear ended at a STop Light. The woman asked me was aI driving above the posted speed limit. Lord I was STOPPED at the light I couldn't be going any faster than ZERO MPH. such lunacy.

Larry

Larry, if you've gotten half the tickets you say you have, you're lucky to be able to get an insurance company to even look twice in your direction. For ANY price. Poor girl probably just assumed that since you were in a car accident, you must've been going 120 miles per hour.

Where are the typical anti capitalist? How dare state farm raise rates...so they can make a profit!

Humm rates based on experience and acturail tables OH MY. The Gov should hammer them, put them out of biz and write all the policies themselves.

And while we are at it LarryMohr, we will go back in time 40 years, back to when trial lawyers had a hard time collecting $100,000 for pain and suffering.....versus the scum sucking Oregon supreme court awarding $80,000,000 to some asshole who smoked 3 packs of Marlboro's A DAY for 40 years. IE Blame the trial lawyers AKA ELLIOT SPITZER and JOHN EDWARDS

I say make the risk pool way deeper for people who want to live in the highest risk areas.... period. I repect your right to live where you want but not to make my rates go up because you want to live in an area that is clearly highly prone to destruction by natural forces.
Market economics... if you want a home there you'd better be able to afford the home and the insurance.

Live where ever you want, doesn't matter to me, however... Insurance companies are a buisness and they are out to make money not lose it. I think those who choose to live along the coast should be prepared to pay higher rates to cover such things, either that or don't carry any insurance and cover the cost to rebuild out of their own pocket, not mine...