RE: Insurance woes

["Mike Miller (Volt Comp)" <a-mikemi@microsoft.com>]

I was in this boat a few years back. My last ticket dropped of on Oct
19th and my policy renewed on Oct 1st. I pleaded with Allstate to drop
the rates but they declined, so on Oct 20th, I signed up with another
company at 50% less (about $1k). At the end of six months I went back to
Allstate at a rate even cheaper than I was paying with the new company.
You might consider changing companies.

mike miller - renton,wa
91 200q that costs about $950/yr to insure. and 681/yr for license plate
tabs!!

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>From: 	owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net on behalf of Shaun Mullen
>Sent: 	Thursday, January 30, 1997 12:20 PM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Insurance woes
>
>I too pay about 5Gs a year to insure my quattro because of speeding
>tickets.  It did not matter to the police officers, insurance company or
>state in which I insure my Audi whether I was an experienced driver in a
>roadworthy car with a Momo wheel who was not endangering anyone, a creep
>high on crack cocaine weaving in and out of traffic in a beat-to-spit
>Toyota, or an elderly housewife rushing home in her Buick Regal to watch
>Riki Lake.  I was caught speeding not once, but twice, and in the
>present legal and political climate, that is all that mattered.  Finding
>cheaper insurance rates and more creative policy-writing on the front
>end can make a difference, but if you're caught speeding in most states,
>your butt is going to be farmed out, like mine, to "pool" insurers who
>will show you no slack or mercy.  Ever.  One of my two speeding tix is
>three years old next week, and technically no longer an albatross around
>my insurance neck, but the substantial surcharge on my annual premium
>won't come down until next December, when my policy is up for annual
>renewal.  Speed if you will, dear friends, but if you're caught, it
>matters not to anyone but you that you're doing so in all-wheel style.
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