[HN Gopher] Horrible insurance kerfuffle gone good ___________________________________________________________________ Horrible insurance kerfuffle gone good Author : RickJWagner Score : 29 points Date : 2021-12-31 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.plover.com) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.plover.com) | PaulHoule wrote: | I think my insurance company is pretty lenient but my agent is a | jerk. | | I had a time when I was late making a payment and she was pretty | abusive about it even though I was offering to pay right away. | | I've talked to many people in business who were frustrated about | a payment being past due but until then everyone I met was 100% | cool after I told them it was a mistake and payment in full was | immediately forthcoming. | | I've been thinking about changing my insurance but there are | numerous features about my house that make it hard to insure, | such as the fact that it doesn't have central heat. (I've got the | same propane heater you see in many anime and also two wood | stoves though.) It is coming up in February and maybe this year I | will look for a new agent. | yeetaccount4 wrote: | Get Farmers if you can. I live near a wildfire impacted area | and nobody with State Farm got what they should have (if | anything at all) unless they sued for it. Everyone with Farmers | got what they should have, and in a timely manner. | tantalor wrote: | mjd wrote: | Agreed. The first words are: | | > I doubt this story will be of interest to anyone but me | | If you read past that, you have nobody to blame but yourself. | maxerickson wrote: | Do you think anyone flagged your other comment ironically? | mjd wrote: | "It is possible to entertain no thought about this, and not | to be troubled in spirit; for things of themselves are not | so constituted as to create our judgements upon them." | (Marcus Aurelius) | RHSeeger wrote: | Personally, I enjoyed the read. I tend to enjoy people | discussing how they resolved problems, the steps they took, and | the outcome; so I may be biased. | ajkjk wrote: | I liked it. | tacostakohashi wrote: | I was expecting it was all a building up to the house to | burning to the ground in the end or something... but nothing | ever happened. Oh well. | mjd wrote: ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-31 23:00 UTC)