Dear folks/insurance companies launching law suits against the city of Halifax for the fire last year:
Are you retarded? Suing someone because they risked their lives to save your ass? If your house was damaged you have insurance, this is what insurance is for. Insurance companies, pay the damn money and shut up, how much money do you take from people that you never have to pay out to? I bet you come out way ahead, don’t you?! This is absolutely ridiculous, I can not believe it really. —Sick of people and their dumb shit
This article appears in Apr 29 – May 5, 2010.
Wow…. that was totally uncalled for, if you really read the whole article then you will know what is going on. Also if you read a insurance contract you would also be informed as to the fact that it is the insurance company that has decided to sue not the peoples whose homes were damaged and destroyed, its a little thing called subrogation clause…
The Fire Dept is too busy fighting claims of discrimination and racism to be bothered fighting this now too, plus fighting any fires that crop up. The insurance companies are just plain evil.
They left the fire WITH STILL ACTIVE HOT SPOTS so they could go on their lunchbreak, and while they were stuffing their faces the fire flared back up, which eventually destroyed those houses and nearly killed a few people in the process. Active hot spots should NOT be left unattended. They didn’t do their job properly and therefore deserve to be sued.
Insurance companies should fuckoff and go to hell!
Just sayin’
Who to believe, who to believe? Firefighters or insurance companies. My, that is a sticky dilemma.
You could show me video of firemen riffling the pockets of the dead and roasting Jimmy Deans on the smoldering embers of an orphanage and I’d still give them the moral edge over insurance companies by a country mile.
and i just wonder how many more, torched their place, hoping to collect big bucks from the insurance carrier. some people are either too fucking greedy, or just too fucking stupid, you know who you are. hope you read this bitch.
aaah tsar, i can tell you are a wordsmith and suckulous wlyb
The city has insurance so if they lose their insurance company will pay up, less the deductible.
Unless HRM is proven to be negligent, not unheard of.
While HRM has insurance with outside companies, they also self-insure a lot of their assets and departments. An award against the city will result in taxpayers footing the bill when 1) HRM has to dig into their cash for self-insured items, 2) an increase in premiums paid to their contract insurance carriers, and 3) taxpayers will also have to cover the lawyer fees while HRM defends itself are a given no matter who wins the case.
I have an issue with the insurance companies taking this on – they operate a “what-if” type of business venture, you lose on some policies and you win on others. At the end of the year you figure out if your company broke even, lost money or perhaps made a profit. You take your lumps when they happen and move on, hoping the next year is more profitable or simply close up shop.
Can you imagine if a retailer realised they lost money that year and sued every paying customer for that fiscal period simply because the store didn’t make money on the prices charged at the time of sale? Sue each customer for $100 and watch the profits increase on the books. Problem is the retailer could never get away with it but somehow the insurers are doing the very same thing.
Well said voice_of_reason
…………Lawyers………..
What can you expect… these same scumbags wouldn’t pay Katrina victims by citing dome stupid loophole, too. take’em out and boil their bags in oil. And I don’t mean Superstore bags.