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Is Pay-As-You-Go Car Insurance a Good Idea?
"Legislation is currently underway in California" that would make this possible and Progressive has a similar option to its customers in other states. Progressive's program requires access to when and how you drive. California officals will not make that part of the policy. Is this a crucial difference in ideas? Do you think that's too much informaton released?
Safe drivers might like Progressive's idea because they hope that they will be rewarded for their great driving with lower rates. I personally don't see that as the case. What do you think? "Legislation is currently underway in California" that would make this possible and Progressive has a similar option to its ... more -
A Green alternative to AAA
AAA, who did well to focus on roadway safety reform through the 1940s, is isolating many consumers due to its stance on a more current safety issue: the environment. Most AAA members don't know that the organization "is a lobbyist for more roads, more pollution, and more gas guzzling. AAA is a member of the auto-industry backed American Highway Users Alliance, a group known for its love of laying new pavement. AAA's work with the AHUA isn't something it advertises with its members. Nor was the fact that AAA came out against the Clean Air Act back in 1990.
In fact most members don't know that AAA is involved in lobbying at all; but the group has a history of siding against everything from open-space measures, to public transportation funding, to the regulation of auto emissions.
In 2006 AAA's largest club, the Automobile Club of Southern California, worked against Prop. 87. The proposition would have established a "$4 billion program to reduce petroleum consumption (in California) by 25 percent, with research and production incentives for alternative energy, alternative energy vehicles, energy efficient technologies, and for education and training." The funding for the program would have been a gas tax, not on consumers at the pump, but on the "producers of oil extracted in California." Prop. 87 went on to specifically say that any additional costs would "not be passed on to consumers through higher prices for oil, gasoline or diesel fuel."
Better World Club may be an alternative for you even if you don't own a car but get around by bike! AAA, who did well to focus on roadway safety reform through the 1940s, is isolating many consumers due to its stance on a more current... more -
It's not only Allstate. This egregious strategy permeates the entire insuranc...
Who thinks exposing this Allstate model of claims adjusting is confined to just auto losses?
Just because this system was documented by an attorney who worked with Allstate auto and bodily injury claims doesn't mean its intent and implementation is not copied and used elsewhere by a majority of companies across all their lines.
Read how cleverly they use an entire indoctrination process and try so carefully to write it in a way that could be denied as being harmful or unfair.
However with the verbal instructions and hype that accompanies the insurance industry's effort to expose fraud and waste, they make their claims people and the public think that it is the rule rather than the exception.
There is no doubt in my mind that a similar internal plan mirroring this one in auto claims was what caused the Twodee thread about similar tactics. While that insurer may not have actually taken the life of her sister, they certainly made her fight against cancer a terrible ordeal. The insurer slowed down or completely denied proven treatments that could have saved her much grief and possibly her very life.
All of you who read this and know the tactics they use - please help by linking your own pods and threads that keep repeating what Americans deserve - a single payer system where profit does not dictate care.
The Iraq War alone, could have paid for a good start on a well-thought-out single payer system that was fair to all Americans. Who thinks exposing this Allstate model of claims adjusting is confined to just auto losses? ... more -
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto ...
You have claimed not to be responsible in any of them, usually listing the cause of the accident as either "Sneak attack by Decepticons" or "Unavoidable damage caused by protecting freedom for all sentient beings." You have claimed not to be responsible in any of them, usually listing the cause of the accident as either "Sneak attack by Decep... more
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