Archive for February, 2009

Anderson Cooper 360 — Keeping them Honest: Insurance Battle

Friday, February 6th, 2009

approve67 asked: Anderson Cooper 360 covers the effort to make sure insurance companies treat Washington consumers fairly -- Referendum 67 -- on his October 2, 2007 broadcast. Visit http://www.approve67.org to learn more.STEPHEN

What obligation does a company have to protect my credit card number?

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Courtney M asked: I just found out that a company I purchase something from is then emailing my credit card information (unencrypted it would appear) to another company that will actually be charging my card. They take the card via a secure website, and then they go and do something like ...

Why can auto insurance companies discriminate on the basis of age and sex, but not ethnicity or race?

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

G asked: If you're a teenage male, you're doomed if you want to get auto insurance. You will pay exorbitantly more because the statistics say that you are more of a hazard. So you are not judged as an individual, but as a group of people. I'm sure statistics can also ...