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- From: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: California Mandated Earthquake Insurance - Would you pay it???
- Keywords: Earthquake Insurance, Mandated
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.111047@wsl.dec.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 18:10:47 GMT
- References: <55965@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>
- Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News)
- Reply-To: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten)
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- Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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- In article <55965@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>, jeff@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Jeff Lim) writes:
- |>
- |>
- |> Hello Californian Netters,
- |>
- |> I received a letter from my homeowners insurance stating the
- |> mandated law requiring all insurance companies to remit anywhere
- |> from $12 to $60 for the CRER State Fund. This fund is suppose
- |> to provide a $15K fund to the homeowner minus a deductible after
- |> a earthquake. The deductible is a min of 1K to 3.5K so that in
- |> worst ase you could collect $11.5K from the state fund. There
- |> is a statement stating that if the fund does not reached a reserve
- |> of $750M then in the case of an earthquake the fund will be
- |> "Pro-rated" which means that you will get whatever they have
- |> in the fund. The letter states that if I refused to remit the
- |> $60 to the state fund then I will not be elegible to receive any
- |> funds in the case of an earthquake. A question to the net,
- |> is this fund worth paying $60 for?? I would like to know your
- |> opinions and would you pay into this fund.
-
- The intent of CSER is essentially to pay the large deductable
- on your earthquake insurance policy, which is probably 15K or so.
- As you stated, the CSER has around 2K of deductable. Therefore,
- you're paying 60 bucks for 13K of insurance. That seems roughly
- double the normal rate for insurance.
-
- If you reject CSER, you're of course still covered by your earthquake
- policy with its large deductable. I wasn't sure from your post whether
- you understood this.
-
- -joel
-