That’s right! I have fans. I only have a few, but out of the top 403 internet service providers to provide traffic to my website over the last month, I wouldn’t have guessed that the object of my disaffection, American Nation Property and Casualty would have been #9 out 403! With 41 visits from their main office in Springfield, MO, I’m guessing the best source of accurate news about their sordid reputation IS RIGHT HERE! While you nice folks out on the interwebs are reading to find out what happened to Carol Ann and Laura Stutte, American National Property and (more…)
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08
Mar
2011
#9 American National Property and Casualty
03
Mar
2011
Comedy in Tragedy
I’ve been reading other people’s blogs postings about the arson that destroyed Carol Ann and Laura Stutte’s home last Labor Day. The comments that following these postings are normally sympathetic with some asshat occasionally accusing the couple of burning down their own home. I ran across one comment that was unlike any other so far. The writer summed up the situation well. I was taking a drink at the time and the spontaneous laughter made me gag and choke: He’s right. If I didn’t know better I would think it was an Onion article. It’s funny how satire can really point out (more…)
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28
Feb
2011
GetEqual Flexes Their Muscle
If you’ve been following the ongoing trials of Carol Ann and Laura Stutte trying to get their insurance company, American National Property and Casualty, to pay up after their home was burned down by a homophobic arsonist, you know that I started a petition on http://gayrights.change.org last week. I did this after some of the handful of readers of my blog suggested it. In a week’s time, I had collected about 1500 signatures. What is cool about the online petition system created by http://change.org is that each time a user “signs” the petition, their petition engine fires off an email (more…)
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25
Aug
2009
Insurance Co-Operative Scam
Wanna know why insurance companies are seeming amicable to so-called non-profit health care co-operatives? In a recent New York Times article by Robert Pear and Gardiner Harris about the new idea of Health Care Co-Operatives, I noticed that BlueCross BlueShield of North Dakota was a nonprofit organization. Mr. Conrad’s own state demonstrates the uncertainties surrounding cooperatives. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota dominates the state’s private insurance market, collecting nearly 90 percent of premiums. As a nonprofit owned by its members, the company would hope to qualify as a co-op under federal legislation, said Paul von Ebers, its incoming (more…)
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Calling Out the Troops
Greetings, First, I want to thank all of the 25,000+ people that have read Carol Ann and Laura’s story and signed the online petition at change.org. When I first created the petition, I wasn’t sure quite how it worked. I always thought that online petitions could have no effect. They aren’t legally binding. Why would the target of the petition care? I now know. Each time a new person signs the petition, the petition engine sends an email to all of the various targets listed. As you can imagine, this has a powerful annoyance factor. Even more so, it allowed (more…)
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