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Flat charges are driving
insurers from state
Insurance coverage is required to guard people and households from monetary wreck and it’s the catalyst for companies to offer services that drive our financial system.
The Division of Insurance coverage feels that they’re doing the insurance-buying public a favor by not approving requested fee will increase and driving carriers to stop offering protection right here in California. This usually extremely aggressive business is seeing firms drop out of the state, and prices are hovering as consumers should look to non-admitted carriers like Lloyds of London.
The first duty of the insurance coverage commissioner is to guarantee that now we have a sturdy insurance coverage market and that charges are usually not extreme or insufficient.
Perhaps, simply possibly, the Division of Insurance coverage will come to its senses and notice that competitors and out there protection is how this technique delivers high quality protection at a aggressive worth. Let’s repair this now.
Tom Quirk
CEO, Garland-Sturges & Quirk Insurance coverage Providers
San Jose
New county government
mishandled e book scandal
Re: “Meet the county’s new high government” (Web page B1, July 24).
However the puff piece about new County Govt James Williams, there are severe questions on his judgment.
The Mercury Information reported that his predecessor Jeff Smith awarded Jean McCorquodale, spouse of former state Sen. Dan McCorquodale, a no-bid contract to put in writing a e book on county historical past regardless of her having no expertise in e book writing or publishing. Her draft was plagiarized and he or she submitted phony invoices costing the county over $1 million. The mission was canceled, however Williams, in his prior place as county counsel, dropped authorized actions towards McCorquodale, permitting her to maintain the cash. His justification? The expense to pursue authorized motion.
Clearly, sure individuals, if well-connected, are above the regulation. Moreover, it’s simply taxpayer’s cash. This doesn’t bode effectively for the taxpayers who pay the payments.
John Carr
San Jose
Now could be the time to deal
with local weather change
So that you’re having an journey, driving off-road throughout Demise Valley in your Jeep, whenever you hear a wierd noise coming from the engine. It’s getting louder and louder.
Your answer: flip up the radio.
This appears to be a standard response to the local weather disaster.
