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- From: savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: Cheap Insurance Rates??
- Message-ID: <1e68hvINNjc1@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 19:31:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.191114.10872@athena.mit.edu> <PA_HCL.92Nov14062638@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
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- In article <PA_HCL.92Nov14062638@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>, pa_hcl@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Henry Leong) writes:
- > Insurance prices are fixed by the state, all insurance companies in Mass
- > will have the same rate and none of those rates will be cheap.
-
-
- That's true and not true. I had Travelers for an insurance
- company a while back with a seperate insurance agent. I called
- several times because the coverage on my car was equal to
- that of my friends cars, yet I was getting charged $300-400
- more than them and my car was 3-5 years older! It turned
- out (after I did some checking with other insurance companies)
- that I was getting screwed by the agent (and by Travelers
- since my bills were coming straight from them!). My rates
- were higher because the agent had fees which got tacked
- on to my rates. I would pay Travelers direct and they
- would obviously send money back to the agent. Everytime
- I called the agent on this, the response would be "Oh, no
- Sir. You must be mistaken. Insurance rates are regulated
- in MA. We can't charge more than the other guy." It
- wasn't until I told them I was switching and why AND told
- them what my new rates were, that they finally admitted
- (sort of) that there was a difference in rates.
-
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