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- From: ramage@ece.scarolina.edu (Dan Ramage)
- Subject: Re: Rising Insurance Charges versus decreasing Accident Rate (U.K)
- Message-ID: <ramage.728001188@tesla>
- Keywords: insurance, accidents
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <mjs.727995833@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:33:08 GMT
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- mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes:
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- >Last weeks U.K. Motorcycle News carried a story about how the
- >number of motorcycle deaths in this country had virtually halved
- >over the last five years, making motorcyclists the only group
- >of road-users to have met the governments targets for reducing
- >deaths on the road - only the targets were intended to be achieved
- >in something like five years time.
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- >What I want to know is this - why, when the number of deaths is dropping,
- >and also presumably the accident rate, is the cost of motorcycle insurance
- >going through the roof?? Are insurance companies making fortunes out
- >of us?? Were we getting our insurance on the cheap before?? Is it the cost
- >of all the plastic fairings on our racer-reps that we are paying for??
- >Is it the increasing numbers of machines being stolen??
-
- >Anyone out there got any answers??
-
- Sorta sounds like what happened in California a couple of years
- ago when they had some strict water usage for residents enforced.
- Well the residents had reduced their water consumption to the
- regulations. However this meant the water company was losing
- money, so they upped the rates.
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- Has anyone else seen/read about some insurance companies denying
- people coverage because of their genetic inheritance? I caught
- just a mention of it on CNN but did not see the segment.
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