Well, another primary night has come and gone. Hillary gets congratulations for winning Kentucky, Obama gets congratulations for winning Oregon, and Hillary gets congratulations again for her creative arithmetic and her tenacity for vowing to stay in the race until the final primary.
One happy thought — in two weeks the primary season will be over….and perhaps sometime in the next 3½ months we might reach a definitive answer on who the Dems’ nominee might be.
Tags: 2008 Elections · Hillary · Kentucky · Obama · Oregon
Seen at Insurance Journal:
The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has issued an emergency order to protect Oregonians from losing insurance coverage because of recent winter storms. [...]
The order prohibits insurers from canceling or not renewing policies until Jan. 3, 2008, in Lincoln, Tillamook, Clatsop, Columbia, and Yamhill counties.
“The storm has disrupted the lives of many Oregonians, and, as a result, many of them may not receive a cancellation notice or not be able to pay their insurance premiums on time,” said Carl Lundberg, acting administrator of the DCBS Insurance Division. “We want to ensure no one loses insurance coverage because of the storm.”
This sort of order is one that I have no problem with, and generally insurers have no qualms complying with. Even though more insureds these days use automated payment methods (be it a form of EFT or simply paying for homeowners coverage via mortgage escrow), it still not right to cancel a customer because the mail wasn’t running and/or because they had the wrath of Mother Nature to distract them from timing a bill payment.
You see these sorts of emergency orders issued after major disasters.
That has me wondering if perhaps there could be some standardization made in such declarations. If an event meeting criteria X, Y, and Z occur, insurers would be expected, via rule or reg, to know that a no-cancel period of pre-prescribed duration is to be in effect.
Depending on what “X, Y, and Z” might be, the entire process could be automated, so that It Just Works.
Tags: Insurance · Cancellations · Oregon
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