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From: gordon@uw-june (Gordon Davisson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Women/men and the consumption of auto insurance
Message-ID: <41@uw-june>
Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 03:30:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 03:30:56 1985
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>>>       A friend of mine tried to get insurance on her car but the
>>> insurance companies (3 of them before she said to hell with it)
>>> refused to consider her for low cost insurance because her husband had a
>>> marginal driving record (2 tickets in 6 months after 12 years without
>>> a single violation)
>>>
>>> jeanette l. zobjeck

>>AAACK!  This sounds extremely illegal.  How do they get away with it?
>>
>>Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
>>aka Swazoo Koolak

>	It's simple... At least statistics says it is...
>
>	All of insurance is based on statistics and the ability to apply it
>to predict when an event can happen. In this case statistics are being used
>to predict when a car accident will occur.
>
>[discussion of why 2 accidents in short time is a bad sign]
>
>Peter Barada
>{ihnp4!inmet|{harvard|cca}!ima}!pbear!peterb

I think you're missing the point, Peter.  Jeanette's friend was upset not
because her husband's driving record was considered bad, but because it
was considered at all.  I mean, she's the one getting the insurance, so
what's her husband's driving got to do with it?  I understand that when
a married man gets auto insurance, his wife's record is not factored in.
Why the double standard?  (or is my info bad?)

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