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Have you considered writing/calling/visiting your congressman AND your senator? We really should have OUR politicians WORKING FOR us. I'm sure this together with all of us writing to Standard Ins. would get some kind of reaction from them. Jackie for Bob, 46, 4 yrs Charles T. Meyer wrote: > > [log in to unmask] wrote: > > Thanks Bruce > > The problem with your sugestion is that the people who would wind up > avoiding Standard are people with PD. Believe me if they don't come > through by the end of this week without any more game playing I will hit > them where it hurts- in the wallet. What I need now is as much info > about similar cases as possible. If this turns out to be "standard > practice" for Standard Insurance I think they will be bankrolling a > significant contribution to Parkinsons' Research from an anonymous > midwestern doner who suddenly came into a lage amount of cash. > > We don't want to get nailed for harassment but we'll get the bastards in > court if they don't settle quickly. > > Thanks for your Ideas, > > Charlie > > > > > How about if we all made copies of this message and sent it to the CEO with a > > threat of retaliation if Standard Insurance does not pay this man what he is > > due. We could tell him (anonymously, obviously) that we would do all we could > > to alert the tens of millions of other users of the Internet of his company's > > business practices, if they continued to fail to live up to their half of the > > contract. Copies could be sent to the Oregon Insurance Commissioner, and > > industry advocacy groups, etc. We aren't 100% sure we know all the facts, but > > Mr. CEO could be invited to supply any that Mr. Meyer left out - of which I'd > > bet there aren't any. I cannot see how this would hurt Mr. Meyer and it might > > help. I know most of us don't have the luxury > > of having this type of policy, but what is happening here is little different > > than what the HMOs and Medicare are doing - except these life/disability > > companies may be more influenced by the possibility of bad publicity. > > B.Bruce Anderson (50, 1 1/2)