Our respnses are interspersed below:
Dynalysis of Princeton wrote:
>
> States mandate auto insurance. Can you give me any information as to
> why states do not specify what infomation auto insurers can require for
> citizens to buy mandatory auto insurance?
Probably because insurance companies pay for the legislation they want, or the
legislation they want to avoid. It's called campaign coontributions, but it
should be known as legislative bribery.
> Why would an auto insurance
> company need to underwrite consumers by contacting their employer,
> speaking to their neighbors, looking at their credit history and medical
> files and history?
I guess to find out if you have narcolepsy, epilepsy a drug or dinking problem,
etc.
> Erie Insurance demands that this should be their
> option. Is there any obligation for insurarance companies to guarantee
> to consumers that they will not resell information they gather?
That depends on your state laws.
If you don't like them - get them changed. It is a citizen's responsibility to
resolve injustice. In my view, unless we are willing to act, we don't have a
true right to complain.
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