Re: Geico donations

["Jonathan Linkov" <valiumnj@email.msn.com>]

Same with New Jersey.  Heck, I am with GEICO, I admit it, cause they saved
me $300 over the other quotes I got.  But now, at age 25 still with zero
problems (come May 8) I will be lookin' once again.  It STILL is a corrupt
industry...
Jon Linkov
valiumnj@msn.com
'96 A4q

-----Original Message-----
From: PATRICK_KELLY@HP-Andover-om3.om.hp.com
<PATRICK_KELLY@HP-Andover-om3.om.hp.com>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Friday, February 20, 1998 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Geico donations


>     Any one read about some other donations Geico made a few years ago?
>     Seems Geico purchased a struggling manufacturer of laser speed guns.
>     They then proceeded to "donate" the guns to law enforcement agency's
>     accross the country in the name of increasing highway safety.  The
>     guns came with one string attached, that they be used to write at
>     least X number of tickets each month.  Of course when someone was
>     given a ticket with one of these guns, there insurance premiums were
>     increased an average of 20% if memory serves.  The article then went
>     on to calculate the considerable financial benefit to Geico from the
>     increased number of tickets their policy holders would be recieving.
>     I've read this practice isn't limited just to Geico either.  The irony
>     of paying money to a company that is working harder to make you a
>     criminal is amazing.  And we wonder why road rage is on the rise.  I'm
>     sure there are good, honest individuals working in auto insurance but
>     the industry as a whole is down right un-American if not criminal. At
>     least Geico isn't contributing to the problems here in Massachusetts,
>     they stay out of Mass because the state would require them to insure
>     all risk groups.
>
>     Flame away!
>
>     Patrick Kelly
>     '87 5kSQ
>     Member of the National Motorists Association  www.motorists.com
>
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