"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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Perhaps, and perhaps they are even correct. But I don't trust the
*******s!

I actually reached a point, in very early middle age, when I almost
believed
that all of their number crunching must obviously result in some sort
of
usefull information, in an actuarial sense. However, I now trust them
about
as much as I did as a teenager.

[Missed this the first time]

Do you understand statiscally derived actuarial data? That it's only a
estimate, and that under many current laws, it's a _haphazzard_ guess?

Maybe it's time to move away from mom and dad...


Yuk, yuk...

As annoying as insurance companies can be, some of the people who
routinely
attribute their own decisions to insurance and/or other regulations (which
are only rarely applicable) are a far greater irritant!

Welcome to reality, most commonly refered to as "Liability Law".


For a great example, see the current thread titled: "Can the airport ban
bicycles?" on this NG.

As above.

As for trust of insurance companies (some, not all, by a long stretch) that
routinely try to weasel, have you ever considered the source of our current
liabilityphobia?