Insurance Company Protecting Pricey Idaho Homes from Wildfire

August 24, 2007

  • August 24, 2007 at 7:14 am
    fire victim says:
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    I feel like AIG is prejudiced against me because my mobile home is not being protected in the same fashion as the homes of these high rollers. I live in my mobile home year-round. The rich folks come and go as the weather suits them in their private jets. My home is more important to me as my primary residence than these rich folks’ homes are to them as vacation homes. Why won’t my insurance company, AIG, afford me the same protection they’re giving to these folks? I think this is worse than “red lining” undesirable neighborhoods just because they’re inhabited by people of color and are deemed to be “undesirable” by insurance companies. I might sue AIG if my single-wide burns down.

  • August 24, 2007 at 8:39 am
    I. D. Smith says:
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    It is comforting to know that the owners of the “Pricy Homes” will be aided by raising the cost of coverage to all of us. Insurance carriers do nothing that doesn’t give them benefit.

  • August 24, 2007 at 1:30 am
    bob says:
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    what a gimmick. as of this morning, there are 1,250 firefighters protecting a town of 3,000. nobody but the High Rollers get that kind of treatment. for two guys with a pisspump in the back of a pickup thinking they are doing more good that a professional crew with a quarter million dollar fire department pumper is ludicrous. those pros aren’t going to let anything burn up that the two insurance guys could save.

  • August 24, 2007 at 2:51 am
    Coulda,Shoulda,Woulda says:
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    And how about the E&O liability exposure from all the other people who’s homes weren’t saved because insurance guys were not in the right place at the right time? Or even if they were in the way & caused a problem. Would be a stretch, but would not surprise me.

  • August 27, 2007 at 4:42 am
    drm says:
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    I think that is great the insurance company will do that. I see the benefit of protecting property to reduce costs. If that company can employ a private firm to releive resources available to help fight the fire elsewhere, possibly that is approaching a farmhouse or a trailerhouse.

  • August 28, 2007 at 2:02 am
    Ben Franklin says:
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    So now we are back to my original insurance idea. I created a fire company for my insurance company. It would only fight fires for companies that we insured.

  • August 30, 2007 at 11:58 am
    Icee says:
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    If you read the history of fire insurance companies, that is exactly what they did. The had FireMarks on the doors of their insureds, and their own firebrigades that fought fires only at homes of their insureds.



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