RE: Insurance woes

[Anton Gaidos III <anton_gaidos_iii@firepower.com>]

Here in california insurance companies own the law. We passed an
insurance roll-back proposition in 1988. It is still being fought and
the insurance czar here has consistantly watered this law down and we
never got the roll-back that We The People overwhelming voted for. It is
so blatant that I am surprised no one has tied this guy to a tree. Maybe
Gen. McCaffery, the drug czar and Quackenbush should pal around. After
all "we must of been asleep at the switch" when we voted.

Anton J. Gaidos, III
Motorola Computer Group
The Firepower Team

" The fortunate man knows how much he can safely leave to chance"


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>From: 	Mike Miller (Volt Comp)[SMTP:a-mikemi@microsoft.com]
>Sent: 	Thursday, January 30, 1997 1:19 PM
>To: 	smullen@philly.infi.net
>Cc: 	'quattro'
>Subject: 	RE: Insurance woes
>
>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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