Re: Medical Privacy and Auto Insurance Industry

["Nance L. Briscoe" <nance@intrepid.net>]

Silent reader here...

West Virginia has a form that *MUST* be signed releasing any and all
information. This same "boiler plate" is also part of most credit cards,
local establishments such as carpet stores, furn. stores etc. It started
with MOTOR VOTER REGISTRATION in West Virginia (I think). We recently
settled on our home (re finance), the lawyers had the same boiler plate
release. Anyone bought anything from Gateway??? You'll see the same thing.

Nance
nance@intrepid.net


-----Original Message-----
From: METRA1001@aol.com <METRA1001@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list MED-PRIVACY <med-privacy@essential.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: Medical Privacy and Auto Insurance Industry


>I could have seen this coming; should have. When I was in a wreck, a few
yrs
>ago, my auto insurer demanded to see my entire medical file, and a list of
>every doctor I had ever seen, their current address, and why I had seen
them;
>when they got hold of it started using it to attack and ridicule me. I can
see
>this is where GETTING auto insurance is going to. You need not file a
claim.
>All you have to do is APPLY and you have to go under the microscope. Just
file
>this in one more loss of privacy batch. The stack is growing, in case some
of
>you haven't noticed.
>>>
> I was wondering if anyone knows why a person had to sign a release of
> all information (medical, MIB, etc.) to apply for automobile insurance?
> It seems to me that the State requires that we have automobile insurance
> and without releasing private information like this, a person cannot
> even apply to get the required insurance.  Seems inconsistent with the
> idea that medical information is private.  Do I have to release my
> medical info to Allstate tto get automobile insurance?
>
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