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- From: dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Subject: Re: I'll have a PBJ please.
- Message-ID: <5a3ZXB4w165w@major.panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:50:39 EST
- References: <1993Jan23.061209.26866@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
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- > In article <s6VqXB2w165w@major.panix.com> dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea) w
- > >Having worked for an insurance company, I can tell you in no uncertain
- > >terms that private car insurance is not profitable at all; most
- > >companies sell it only because it is required if they wish to sell
- > >other, more profitable lines, within the same state.
- >
- > question: when you say "not profitable at all, does that include
- > the money they make by investing the premiums collected?
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- I mean not profitable in the sense that often the premiums are not
- enough to cover claims; any profits from investing the premiums are
- minimal, and not worth the effort involved with having to handle
- the consumer market.
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- 4x4 owners do it in the mud. And snow. And dirt. And rocks. Kinky, huh?
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