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Dental Insurance Is A Blue Cross To Bear
By 10.16.06
Thanks to some lying dentists, Georgena’s toothache turned into a real pain in the ass.
Why The Car Accident Was God’s Fault
By 10.10.06
While we were busy being befuddled, a California lawyer slipped a smart-bomb in the comments.
God Works In Mysterious Car Accidents
By 10.9.06
Did you know that if a guy has a stroke while driving and barrels into four other cars, and no one knows he had a tumor beforehand, it’s considered an Act of God?
State Farm Lacks Persistence of Vision
By 9.28.06
State Farm is convinced that Rick was involved in a hit and run in San Francisco in July, even though he was out of town all that month and it seems they don’t even have the right license plate. Just to be sure, they stopped by Rick’s house to take photos of his car, a feat in and of itself as they intially demanded he bring it to their offices himself.
The Car Insurance Penis Tax
By 9.13.06
Okay, this guy’s an ass: as a rule, we don’t like smarmy consumers like this. Moreover, it’s got some strategic edits which are suspect. Hell, I suspect Tim’s part of the call was recorded independently of Luke’s “Aren’t I just so clever?” retorts.
State Farm Isn’t All There
By 9.11.06
Short Story: State Farm sends a letter telling Rick he was ID’d as fleeing a hit-and-run accident. They claim to have a photograph of Rick.
Insurers to Travelers: “Lost Laptop? Not Our Problem.”
By 8.14.06
If you’re flying out of Britain to the United States, you’ve got an 8 hour in-flight of dreary ennui ahead of you. Your laptops, your PDAs, your cellphones, your shiny PSP must all be left in check-in, to be flung about, searched and rooted through by an armada of anonymous baggage check monkeys.
Don’t Get a Kidney from Kaiser
By 8.11.06
Kaiser agreed to a punitive damages totaling $5 million after opening a new kidney transplant center with a disapointing success rate, to say the least.
Insurance Insurance Only For Insurance Companies
By 8.11.06
Buffeted by the winds of a reader’s exultations, we sometimes get things wrong. Or, if not wrong, not completely right. Daniel writes:
CIGNA Changes Mind About Paying $9700 Surgery Bill
By 8.10.06
Ahhh, the second of the insurance stories has trickled in and it’s a rip-roaring doozy.
Counterpoint: God Denies Causing Car Accident
Martin, also a California lawyer, doesn’t believe God was in that crashing car at all. He writes: