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I-Fans.
That’s right. ITP is going all-volunteer. Since Oct. 5, 2006, I’ve e-blasted these notes to a list of about 250 people. Not all of them asked for it, however, and over the past five months (feels like forever, right?), some have asked off, and probably more have asked on.
I’ll continue to post to the web with some frequency, and I WILL blast emails to those who want it. But it’s time the Eagle and I stood on our own four feet.
So, to get off the list, DO NOTHING. And don’t feel bad about it. As I’ve said, I consider receiving of these a favor.
To stay on, please reply “ITPlease” (no quotes needed); I’m using that funny word so I can easily search for it in gmail.
I’ll probably send out one or two more of these notices, and that’s it.
As a bonus, I add this nugget from something called NU Online News Service under the headline:
“NAIC’s Bell Nixes Small Insurer Exemption Idea”
Not to make fun of a man’s name, but check out the byline:
BY ARTHUR D. POSTAL
Never mind the subject of the story. It’s not the point.
But I call your attention to the last paragraph, part of an interview with Walter Bell, Alabama’s insurance commissioner and the head of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the regulators’ trade group (um, no time to unravel that one today). I think if I just add a little bold face, no further comment from me will be needed.
“He also defended the industry�s handling of claims resulting from
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Asked to respond to comments by Sen. Lott at a hearing last week that
the industry�s conduct in handling those claims was �outrageous,
arrogant and mean-spirited,� and that state Attorney General Jim Hood
had �a lot of evidence of misconduct and fraud� by State Farm in
handling of claims, Commissioner Bell said he had talked to a lot of
chief executive officers of companies involved in insuring Mississippi
homeowners, and that ‘they did the right thing.’ “
Funny, but not.
Thanks to the Boulevardier of Loone Lake and to one and all for being part of the ITP family.