When Good Neighbors Go Bad -- The State Of Mississippi Versus State Farm (Trees And Things)

dzetetes: Re: They might have more support if...

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:19:21 EST

http://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/pages/index.jsp

Steve Urkel: Re: They might have more support if...

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:33:54 EST

The weasels are the people who chose not to get flood insurance available from the federal government, and are now pretending to be victims. The exclusion language, as cited in a Katriana related damage claim lawsuit against Allstate (it's safe to assume o

rombuu: Re: They might have more support if...

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:56:56 EST

So, if you require buyers to get insurance, but don't require insurers to sell insurance, you get a rather unpleasant situation where no one can buy homes.
Granted, in some of those areas, it might be smarter if no one buys homes there ever again....

Dvandom: They might have more support if...

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:35:24 EST
Part of the PR nightmare for the insurance companies in this situation was the (probably justified) perception that they tried to weasel out of paying for hurricane damage by calling it flood damage and saying it wasn't their problem. Or covering som

wetkarma: Atlas Shrugged

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:53:00 EST
The thing I find fascinating about Mississippi as represented by current officials is that they expect the insurance companies to write coverage when it is unprofitable for them to do so.
Much like Hugo Chavez's insistence that market owners sell their