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- From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Florida disaster raise auto or home insurance rates?
- Message-ID: <3SEP199223115670@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 03:11:00 GMT
- References: <9208312234.AA04488@tyrell.CFSMO.Honeywell.COM> <1992Sep1.141047.29767@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <1992Sep3.004605.12291@pacdata.uucp>
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- In article <1992Sep3.004605.12291@pacdata.uucp>, jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins) writes...
- >London. This is all from a CNN report on the subject.
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- What you need a medium you can =read=...
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- The followups gave some theoretical answers; how about an "exact"
- answer? In the NY Times Wednesday the answer was no, the hurricane
- wouldn't raise rates. There was a bit of on-the-one-hand-on-the-other
- hand, but when it came to the last paragraph, or "tag line", the
- crucial part of most Times articles, an economist was quoted:
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- "This is a big hit [the $7.3 billion estimate of insured
- losses], but I think it might take as much as $40 billion
- to turn things around. I don't think this can do it alone."
-