[Robair]

Brenda wrote:

I moved here from Holland. Accident free for 18 years. I had to ask my former insurance company 4 freakin times for a letter. They are telling you you're not eligible for a discount over a spelling error and a ",". It is rediculous.

Certainly sounds that way.

What is wrong with a clean abstract is what I would like to know.

[Brenda]

They denied us because the letter didn't state: "NO CLAIMS WERE MADE"

Now, where I got my letters from, if you don't claim, it is not recorded, right? And what is not recorded, cannot be put on a piece of paper. So what did I do...

After I got some lady from ICBC headquarters on the phone for over half an hour, and have her explain to me what exactly should be in the letter from my insurance company, I quoted her exact words into an email to that company in Holland. They copied my exact words, printed it on company paper, and sent it to my po box.
This letter was accepted.

HOW STUPID CAN A COMPANY BE??? (talking about ICBC now...)

[Sapio]

Yogi wrote:

QBall wrote:

Sapio wrote:

The question I have is why do we have Crown Corporations at all? Get ride of all government involvement including the BC Utilities Comission.

We have crown corporations because the government decided it and it alone can provide a certain type of service, or wants to more closely regulate a type of industry, or it believes it can better provide a service than the private sector.
I used to live in Ontario, which is a private run system. If you want to experience the first level of hell try spending a day or two trying to get quotes from several dozen auto insurers to try and find the best deal, then go to a MOT vehicle licensing office and wait in line to get a new plate for a vehicle you're purchasing. At least in BC you can go to one of several hundred Autoplan offices and do both at the same time.

I haven't been to my insurance providers office in 3 years! Everything is done either phone, email or snail-mail. The money that I save using private insurance more than compensates me for the 15-20 mins that I have had to stand in line waiting to renew registrations.

Yes indeed it does not have to be "hell" as you can see. I do not buy for one minute that there are service which only he government can do right."closely regulate" is the last thing we need. Let the true free market, which we do not have now, regulate. It will do a much better job.

[QBall]

Robair wrote:

Brenda wrote:

I moved here from Holland. Accident free for 18 years. I had to ask my former insurance company 4 freakin times for a letter. They are telling you you're not eligible for a discount over a spelling error and a ",". It is rediculous.

Certainly sounds that way.

What is wrong with a clean abstract is what I would like to know.

An abstract from the Ministry of Transportation does not track accidents, only moving violations. Insurance companies track accidents.

[postmaster]

. . . while icbc appears to be a car insurance company, it's actually a taxation system for british columbia lawyers . . .

. . . icbc, like the court system, functions as a welfare system for british columbia lawyers looking for handouts. it's obvious that levelling a claim at icbc, whether the claim is legit or not, is easy money for lawyers. the multitudes of law firms dedicated only to icbc claims makes it clear that insurance premiums are basically payments to members of the law society of british columbia . . .

. . . icbc actually cooperates with and encourages lawyers perpetrating insurance fraud. an individual sued my icbc policy claiming i had struck him with my vehicle. yet even though i explained to icbc that the individual was lying and even though several witnesses corroborated the facts, icbc and its lawyers insisted that an accident had occurred. it hadn't . . .