On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 05:22:30 GMT, "NSM" wrote:


"gothika" wrote in message
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| FYI the McDonald's incident WAS a justified case.
| The woman was skalded by coffee that was FAR too hot.
| Look at the case files, the thermostat on the coffee maker was turned
| all the way up by a disgruntled employee. This was a deliberate act....

Also, ISTR that there was a safer cup available, but it cost a penny per
unit extra.

But hey, if GW gets back in he can stop all lawsuits like this with federal
laws. Then the insurance companies can still jack up their rates but now
they won't have to pay! (Who is in whose pocket?)

N

Yeah, insurance required by law, the perfect scam.
Funny how the conservatives don't want big government regulating the
private sector. Unless of course it's to mandate by law that consumers
MUST purchase goods/services from their(conservatives) businesses.

IMO the whole concept of insurance is a scam anyway.
Basically what you have are alot of bean counters who sit around using
actuarial tables to estimate your risk factor and the end cost of that
risk. Then figuring out the time factor until that accident happens.
Using these figures they then estimate how much they'll have to charge
you to make a profit then break that down into monthly payments.
The scam doesn't stop there though. They then have you sign a contract
so lengthy and full of exemption clauses that you will have a very
difficult time if not impossible getting them to pay up on that day
when your accident does occur.
And that's just auto liabilty insurance, life/health insurance is even
more rife with crooked practices.