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RAPPAHANNOCK NEWS
PUBLISHED THURSDAY MORNING
At Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia
TELEPHONE: WASHINGTON 2851
BASIL C. BURKE, JR. Owner
MRS. SARAH C. LATHAM, Managing Editor
Entered as Second Class Mail at tbe Post Office at Washington, Va.
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Protection?
It is amazing’ just how much the people of the country fwill put up with from some of the insurance companies.
On all sides one hears complaints about this company and that company. We do not mean to say that there are no honest insurance companies. There are, but all should be honest. With aill ot the commissions and regulatory agencies, staffed with high priced men (as far as salary is concerned) that the taxpayer pays to look after their interests. the taxpayers.have a right to demand thlat the commissions do something to put an end to this “Insurance Racket” that seems to be sweeping the entire country. §
AU companies seem to be devoted to those “special clauses/’ in teenie-tiny type that can hardly be read with the most powerful 'magnifying glass. Some doubt that they were really intended to be read. Policy holders beware! The clauses in the teenie-tiny type are the “big sticks” with which the high-powered lawyers of the company “beat the living tar” out of the proverbial “widow and orphan.”
A number of times in the i>ast few months one company has cancelled hospitalization policies when the insured, who has paid on it for years, used it for the first time.
Recently there has been a discrimination in our school insurance coverage. The policy holders don’t want to collect. They do everything in their power to cooperate with safety programs to protect their children—and the - in sUnance company.
The policy-holder pays for PROTECTION and when something happens he needs it....has paid for it....The com'
pany owes it to him,in spite of that “special clause m the teenie tiny type.
Who believes that the company really vvanted the Policyholder
to fully u^derst^iid those ‘‘special clauses in the
teenie-tiny type? j S L
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