jayt@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jay T McCanta) (05/09/85)
I posted that insurance companies charge higher rates for red cars.
I got my information from a clerk in an insurance office. It turns
out that although my information was correct, it was also incomplete.
The insurance companies that get down to the color of the car are
those that insure sub-standard drivers. The companies will insure
most any living person driving most any movable vehicle for a price
that looks like a down-payment on a house. The people who buy this
insurance are those most likely to collect on it, hence the rates.
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Mine is not to question why,
They pay the guy down the hall to do that.
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Jay T. McCanta
Boeing Aerospace These ideas are mine and I claim them.
Kent, Wa. My employer may not want to share in claiming.
{uw-beaver|adiron|cesonix|argus|purdue}!ssc-vax!jaytbandy@lll-crg.ARPA (Andrew Scott Beals) (05/24/85)
The major reason why your rates go up for insurance is because the
Nice Men in the Funny Hats (namely Officer Friendly) have given you
a ticket. /A/ ticket can make your rates go up by 30%(!).. Somehow they
seem to think that driving fast on the freeways correlates to being
a spaz behind the wheel. I haven't hit /anyone/ and never collected an
insurance claim but because I have a couple tickets I'm paying through
the nose..
The only times I've been hit, I've been rear-ended by women drivers when
I was at a dead stop in traffic.
DEATH TO THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY AS IT STANDS!
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andy beals
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