Katrina insurance payoffs / America full of wimps

[Dawai]

Watching CNN, Insurance is dancing right around the payments on claims.
People are allowing this. People have to have insurance because of financing. If they delay long enough the "people" will have to become bankrupt because of not having a home to live in, not being able to pay for two homes.

I guess all the people involved are not kin to our founding fathers. They'd took a one shot flintlock and shot somebodies ass. Enough agents get shot, enough board members get shot, Somebody would start paying out or get out of the business of selling bad insurance.

Our founding fathers, by the way, In today's time would all be locked up, not allowed to own guns and on prozac or stronger meds. Anyone reading out the disputes and duels by original congress members would recognize that right off.

FUNNy: Lebanon destruction?... The people got cash from Hezbollah.

Just another sign as a world dominating power we are losing our reality grip. The strong survive, I guess the Chinese will have good jobs for all of us.

Another note: history will show, Katrina only Hit New Orleans and stopped right there. Everyone has forgot the rest of the gulf. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

[bob308]

yes i agree this country started the down hill slide when it did away with duelling. it was simple you win you win. you lose you don't realy care about it. but the courts and lawyers would not have as much work.

[Weston Bye]

How depressing. I had just finished reading this:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1721
Now, more of the same here, and I can't say I disagree.

[DR]

According to the editorial commentary I heard yesterday on NPR, FEMA is using every trick in the book to avoid paying on claims from Katrina damage.

Where's Bush and the other sleaze neo-cons who were going to rebuild NO better than ever?

[WJHartson]

CONSIDER:


About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say good-bye to the USA in fewer than five years.

Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom

[Carld]

It's typical of insurance companies isn't it? You pay for insurance and the company weasels out of paying your claims. That's how they make money and are the most profitable business venture around. The worst part is the courts are bought off by the insurance companies and rule in favor of the companies. Let me think, yes, I think it was Prudential that bought all the forclosure farms in the great depression and painted the barns red so they could see the farms they owned. Got to love the insurance companies.

[speedsport]

sometimes the squeeky wheel don't get greased, sometimes it gets replaced.

[WJHartson]

The insurance companies do make it difficult to collect on a claim. I am still fighting on my claims from Katrina but having some luck. Am now on my third attempt to collect what is fair. I'm not going to go away until I get what is coming to me. Had another adjuster out last week, third time, and now waiting for an answer. Each time they come out I get a little more, takes my time but it has been worth it. I think they now realize that I am not going away. If more people would do that they would pay more. It appears that someone has now talked to the insurance industry about paying and that they are a little more willing to pay for the damage caused by Katrina in Mississippi. The adjuster said that he was going to one of the flooded areas and they were now going to pay for everything above the water line. Prior they would not pay anything if there had been flood water. I think that in the end the insurance companies will be the big losers when the courts get finished with them but it will take years.

As far as New Orleans goes crime is going to put the finishing touches on the city. IMHO it is not going to come back anything like it was prior to the storm. I grew up there and what I see is that there are not enough people trying to help themself.

There is a big difference between what is happening in New Orleans and the rest of the areas that were affected. Mississippi is doing much better than Louisiana with recovery but you just don't here that much about it. Our political leaders are doing a better job than what they have in Louisiana.

[JPR]

According to the editorial commentary I heard yesterday on NPR, FEMA is using every trick in the book to avoid paying on claims from Katrina damage.

An east Texas auto recycler offered New Orleans $5 million to crush and remove all the damaged cars. Mayor said no and hired another firm who is charging in excess of $30 million. Why should Fema pay that bill?

[bob308]

with the price of scrap up they should have done it for free as long as they were getting the cars for scrap. now as to why the higher bid got it one word kickback.