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If you think there is a quantity of auto insurance ads on television, a few madmen and other singles, you were right.

Over the past five years, Germany, spending for ads zoom from 26 to 10 between categories of business done by TNS Media Intelligence - $ 393 million in 2001 to $ 1 billion last year.

“I think the market at the moment, it is as competitive as I’ve ever seen,” said Saturday Sorich, president of the Association of California Insurance Companies.

“Only Red Hot”, he said. “Companies to reduce prices. There were some good profitability, and hence, more aggressive companies.”

Experts say the reason for the decline in long-term rates is a decrease in the frequency of requests, focused on improving safety, such as airbags, door-Side guards and anti-lock brakes.

The average expenditure for auto insurance in California in decline began two years ago, to fall to $ 845 for basic coverage for $ 847, according to the latest data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

CA 18 ranking among the country during the year 2005 above the national average of $ 829, but well below the average expenditure over $ 1100 in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Although the national average in recent years are not available, the trend towards lower rates in California goes further.

The State Department of Insurance approved $ 789 million in auto rate cuts during the last year from 4 percent to 7 percent, 77 for the insurer to $ 20 billion in California.

In Gerangel for customers, observers say Geico is the transformation of nature and the way auto insurance is placed on the market.

“The extent of advertising by the coup roof,” said Brian Sullivan, editor of self-insurance report a weekly newsletter published by the information risk to Dana Point. “The main reason is that Geico has proven that they can to make it work.”

Sullivan said the increase is “a catch-up” for self-insurers, expenditures have been relatively little on advertising for a business represents $ 150 billion per year, the economy in Germany .

Spending on all types of advertising for insurance rose from $ 1.7 billion in Germany in 2002 to $ 3.5 billion in 2006, according to Dowling & Partners Securities in printed form in the May edition of Sullivan’s 28 Newsletter.

Candidate for a personal loan from New York’s First National City Bank, something like a shock in store: the new standard loan contract is in a language they understand, nothing more. The pages in a single document third as long as his predecessor Proverbs of the Bank and the borrower obligations and relaxed, I placed an order with below in the cross. And Citibank is not alone (see box). Ambition to stimulate the economy, banks and insurance companies are also in view of the old long-winded small print on new laws, regulations and lightness.

Next month, First National Bank of Boston inform consumers in their dialect credit, student loans Master Charge agreements. Later this month, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., a single car policy discussion throughout the USA, as recently introduced in Sentry Life Insurance.

Nation Wide first two and Sentry proposed policy in Pennsylvania, earlier this year when a settlement is entered into force, which provides that the automobile insurance must be together at least 40 on the scale of Flesch readability. By its magnitude, ranging from 0 to 100 for the maximum possible brevity and simplicity, was established in 1943 by experts in language Rudolf Flesch (The Art of Writing legible). But not until “we are in an era of consumption,” said Flesch, companies recognize that “for documents written by lawyers is not good enough. Because the consumer is not satisfied. ”

Texas is now plain language requirement for health and accident. The new reform of the federal pension law “emphasizes that companies brochures are written in a kind of fashion are calculated through participants.” And the new Federal Constitution Guarantee Act indicates that the product must be guarantees “Simple and easy to understand. “Linguist Flesch pointed out that most of the writing is not yet a rate of 60 to its level of the scale, he says, New York Daily News or Sports Illustrated. But it is below understood that In recital above that incumbents, and so far, the methodology was the composition of the market adjudged deaf and void of understanding, companies that are not made to suit your own risk.

Although “Akiva was there only a few immigrants from Russia, had no medical training, he heard three clinics of personal injury, Brooklyn.

In July afternoon, he sat behind his desk, turned on the radio, reached in his desk drawer and Manila withdrew a folder full of new police reports. It has a large yellow on each note, and pulled the first report on the office of my friend, another newly registered lawyer, is trying to break into the lucrative practice of the injury right.

“This is a child with a fracture,” said Akiva, “and you will see that plate on the vehicle which took - a team car. Most of the reports. ”

My friend has written a number of notes - $ 500.00 - and then he slipped again on the desktop Akiva, wrote another a little less valuable, and he slipped. It read $ 1,250. Without saying a word, my friend $ 800 wrote in the note, he stressed, and submitted it to Akiva. “Done,” said Akiva.

My friend pulled his company cheque book to be filled with a cheque “narrative reports” on the message and submitted it to Akiva. He had just bought his eighth event of injury this month.

As one third of all States in New York a “no-fault” auto insurance law in the year 1973. The legislator hopes it would reduce litigation right of the injured man on his medical expenses. Critics say that the assurances which automatically provides $ 50000 for medical expenses would not degenerate fraud and driving the process, as a person how to make minor injuries or overtreat, and then accuse.

But nobody predicted they generate thousands of quasi-clinical, brokers as persons requiring damages, or $ 50000 that health care would be a violation of the corps of lawyers fuel the explosive growth of several million complaints.

According to an April 2002 report in The New York Times, the Alliance of insurer American as the New York insurance payments on automobile fraud led to $ 2 million per day. Fraud is not limited to no-fault United, and although the problem is far from New York, published reports show that immigrants from the former Soviet Union, many articles.

In Louisiana, Igor Boris Razvitnov, Texas, Slava and Elena Tretchikova, Pennsylvania, Vadim Lyakin, Florida, Vladimir Shats, California, Michael Smushkevich and Bogich Jovovich.

“We have seen rapid growth in the integration of Russian immigrants in self-insurance fraud,” says James Quiggle Washington, DC-based monitoring group Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. “This is a quick way for an amount of money And it requires no detailed knowledge of American business practices, education in English, or even language. It is a low barrier, and it is very lucrative. ”

The Insurance Research Council in 1998 estimated that 40 percent of all motor insurance claims across the country with fraud. After Quiggle fraudulent claims now auto insurance costs of $ 14 billion per year. So how is it that New York who, like most countries, hats pay only the $ 50000 medical care, leading to lose $ 2 million per day in self-insurance fraud?

The injury disputes in the tortuous, but very disciplined, lawyers Excel. Payment of an injury clinic for new customers, the normal course of business, the hourly costs for many lawyers in America in large cities, where owners of the clinic and their networks “runner” Schäfer victims in hospitals, before consulting a lawyer. Once under the spell of the clinic, are victims of the accident on the negotiation for lawyers have no other means to attract customers.

More entrepreneurship among America’s corrupt lawyers have decided to eliminate not only the operators clinic, but the random nature of car accidents. Disbarred lawyer Ken Gottlieb, in consultation with counsel Oheb Tamir, staging 56 in California by accident the summer of 1999. The following year, Manny Kreitenberg Beverly Hills lawyer was sentenced for his role in a conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, as far as California’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

People have car insurance, because bad things can happen to their car. Rear, my window was dismantled and radio one month - insurance, all but $ 500 of $ 1500. People have insurance in their homes, because a small fire can lead to that tens of thousands of dollars in damage. But many people do not have life insurance, because they bégueule to consider their own mortality.

I have no illusions about me live forever. At the age of my classmates - quite healthy people in their 30s and 40s - nine of which were myocardial infarction, an allergic reaction to a food supplement, A bout of flu, pulmonary edema, while hiking on Mount Kilimanjaro and car accidents. The native of New York, I knew several people in the attack on the World Trade Center.

I do not sell life insurance, but I have my clients advice on the minimum tax rate, they should force. There are a few simple formulas for calculating that amount, which should be, and some additional thoughts to long term. Finally, there are also many Internet that the real world Places To Go for cheaper.
Life-cycle analysis

Each need life insurance? It depends on your stage of life, and make your income. I see no need for a young person or a single person without relatives, to life insurance. The money you spend on premium is better directed to savings.

The picture changes when you marry. Couples make decisions - for example, a mortgage on a house - in principle, a continuous stream of income or both partners. The financial commitments will appear with children: food, clothing, school education. With a picture, life insurance, even for a nonworking spouse (because the survivors must afford, a good example for children).

As some approaches retirement, needs replacement income decreases, because (I hope) the family savings and pensions, the accounts are sufficient. However, families with large land that would be imposed buy specialized, which can be used, be paying taxes Estate. (No, I’m not on the abolition of this tax permanent.)
How much insurance?

If you have a long position of coverage of storage, buy a fixed quantity, the number of shares. An evaluation of the nominal value of your insurance is more difficult because you need to assumptions about the growth of your current income, flows, investment rates of the proceeds from the sale should be the policy and future inflation . In the board of my clients, I assume future inflation at 2% and the future performance of diversified stock and bond portfolio by 7%. My basic principles for the determination of political values.

Direction: The Chicago Board of Trade, said today he would try, Federal Trading authorization to begin term in the contracts of health insurance and automobile insurance. The contract would allow insurance companies a mechanism for locking in the price they must pay for reinsurance, the risk of spread through the sale of policies in other insurers.

The Chicago Board of Trade, said today he would try, Federal Trading authorization to begin term in the contracts of health insurance and automobile insurance. The contract would allow insurance companies a mechanism for locking in the price they must pay for reinsurance, the risk of spread through the sale of policies in other insurers.

”The new contracts are the costs of health care and reducing costs for auto insurance and health insurance to the public,’’said Leslie Rosenthal, chairman of the Board of Trade Commission understands that the new contracts.

One of the designers of the new contract, Richard Sandor, said:”The new contracts may be regarded as a major innovation in terms of interest rates.”It is also considered as one of the architects of the Futures rate interest with banks, insurance companies and other institutions at the investor protection against fluctuations in interest rates.

“The time is right”

”The time is right, because the risks to which insurers are more than ever, because the capital is necessary to write these kinds of insurance, Monsieur,’’said Sandor.

Insofar as the new futures contracts would allow insurance companies should know, before writing policies, how much they should pay for reinsurance, supporters, said that consumers could enjoy a big way.

Christian Milton, the head of the reinsurance purchase of American International Group, a large New York-based insurers, said:”If I could freeze in the price of reinsurance for my property and accident portfolio This would be a good thing. ”

But Mr. Milton and two other insurance leaders interviewed today whether the Governing Council of standard design, could actually agree on reinsurance companies as a basis for trade. They found that the reinsurance agreements are usually every year negotiating with insurance companies to change the amount of insurance by the reinsurance agreement and exchange risks are excluded from reinsurance.

”Every time we will negotiate again, our customers can have an appetite for risk higher or lower,’’said Robert Faber, a reinsurance company in the executive, Allstate Insurance Company. ”It is not just default each reinsurance agreement.”

Other Skeptical

Some analysts were also sceptical. Michael Sutton, Shearson Lehman Hutton analysts, Reuters said,”The insurance industry is seeking security in their reinsurance business relations, and this is not regarded as safe.”He expected the new product would have a difficult time to win approval of the State Insurance Commissioners. “Who Backs It Up?”There are clearly many issues that led to ask,”Myron Picoult, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Company, told the News Service.”The question is obvious, in the back. Who would In the case of a payment of insurance contract for the future? What is the balance?”

The answers to these questions were not immediately available. Citing competition with other exchanges, Mark Prout, a spokesman for the Board of Trade, the world’s largest futures market, fell for all the details, how the new future.

Mr. Sandor said that, like other futures contracts, it would hedge against price fluctuations. An insurance company, who are in the reinsurance would be against future increases in rates for reinsurance, he said, because such an increase would be even a profit of the insurance company’s position in the long run.

Réassureurs, he added, would be in a similar position: Any increase or decrease the amount of premium income they earned for entry into the reinsurance agreements would be a gain or loss on their futures contracts.

Futures contracts include the provision of goods - a physical product, such as cereals, or as a financial instrument for cash or Treasury Securities. Mr. Sandor, a former economist Board of Trade, it is now president of the Banque Indosuez International Capital Markets, would not disclose what would have occurred if the reinsurance future. Probably, if the Board of Trade, try a standard convention of reinsurance, and as the price to pay for changes of this agreement in normal market conditions ,”” cash, the Future prices will change.

Regional telecommunications, Bell Atlantic Carrier (NYSE: BEL) has long awaited its application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the capture of the call distance market in New York.

If approved, Bell Atlantic, the first regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC), transport to offer long distance in their own field of application since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has made possible. In New York, it would allow Bell to meet all its customers national and international telecommunications services - a company, invoice.

A little background of the Telecom Act: The idea was each company, all communication enterprises, comprehensive and open so that competition. It was the first major change in the telecommunications USA law in almost 62 years and tried to break down barriers between cable, wireless, local and long distance.

But for Bell, for the benefits of deregulation, he had to go over $ 1 billion to ensure that their local telephone network was open to competitors, local calls offer services in the Bell zone. That was part of the new law. For Bell and other RBOCs too long, may have competitors, go local.

For consumers, the promise of a happy Telecom Act should mean more choices and lower prices. For investors, it must mean that telecom operators have the opportunity to tap new markets. And this is not only open new markets. It should be an opportunity for businesses that seek new profitable services to their customers. It is an area, many analysts of public opinion is ripe for growth.

Let’s face it, distance telephone service is not new, monsters and companies like AT & T (NYSE: T) and MCI WorldCom (Nasdaq: WCOM), have a clear advantage over a newcomer as Bell Atlantic. But if Bell could turn over 8 million customers in New York and creativity for packages local, long distance, data and Internet access or services, the player turnover. Think of the leverage farm state, when it provides customers a discount on the gentle landscape owner’s insurance, because they already have a strong state self-insurance. Bell would benefit, with the same leverage.

The New York company, which operates from the remote control to enter the market for more than two years, says it is a critical part of its plan for reunification services for customers. No company has a group of passes, but AT & T and others are trying. Those who are not retained. The image of a world of converging communications group offers and services is also a lot of sense, doomed to failure, although probably more time than it imagines. (Time plays no role, many long-term investors).

If Bell succeeds in New York she plans to serve the demands of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and finally all 14 of their territories from Maine to Virginia.

Investors have good reason to believe that society can do. It has strong results to its shareholders, since more apparent and AT & T during the year 1983, an average of 19.5% annual return (provided that the dividends were reinvested) compared to an average yield of 17.9% for the S & P 500

In the future, Bell earnings per share growth of 13% to 15% for the first two years after the proposed merger with GTE (NYSE: GTE) is complete, and more than 15% after the first two years (less Fusion-related costs). The company has generated more money consistently from operating activities as investment, increase its dividend and has almost $ 1 billion in cash.

While it is difficult to choose the winners in this field, but fools have applauded deregulation opens the ring for a fight competitive. After GTE, Bell is the second telephone company in the USA, a few pounds to AT & T. Take dresses. Let’s see if Bell’s willingness to scrap, with the volume at a distance.

Is it time to renew your car insurance? Today, the Board of comparison Shop makes more sense than ever before.

Prices for the same coverage of the rule to distinguish as much as several hundred dollars by a company to another. But rising prices in general, and many discounts are discarded, while new ones are proposed. And some major insurers have started adjusting prices based on vehicle safety.

Some drivers of cars and large Sport Utility Vehicles, which was badly damaged in accidents cars lighter can expect to pay more responsibility for reporting as drivers of small cars. However, these large vehicle owners can pay less for personal injury and other medical care because their passengers are generally better protected.

”At no time in recent history, he spends a lot of things can affect what they pay for auto insurance,’’said Robert P. Hartwig, chief economist for the insurance industry Information Institute, a group of commercial insurance, which is headquartered in New York.

With the purchase, consumers can afford the changes. But it takes work - in many cases, more work than most people in the price and buying a new car. There are hundreds of insurance companies, and even with the Internet, not a single place, as Kelley Blue Book for car values to find the best offer among the countless combinations of rates.

Imagine yourself a man of 35 years in Brooklyn in 2000, a model four-door Ford Taurus LX and a good road. The state minimum required coverage, including liability and personal injury, as well as cost $ 1294 per year in Atlantic Mutual, or as little as $ 787 in the Erie Insurance Group, the New York State Insurance Department. (National Insurance Institute-sections are good places to start the process of purchase.)

But if the conflict and full surfaces are added - mandatory for any vehicle bought on credit - Atlantic Mutual’s increases the total annual cost of $ 3634 and $ 3644 Erie’s. This gives Atlantic Mutual, on the first appeared to be more expensive, plus the price of $ 10.

This is not the end. The liability and personal injury coverage are often increases the protection against complaints. To increase the liability coverage for injuries by another car on board, say, $ 300000, that the minimum-$ 50000, Atlantic Mutual adds $ 402 and $ 219 Erie. Atlantic Mutual charges $ 22 increase the liability coverage for damage to another driver in the car up to $ 50000 - $ 10000 minimum - Erie for $ 24 booking fee. To increase coverage for personal injury, the insured up to $ 100000 - the minimum-$ 50000 - Atlantic Mutual charges $ 14 and $ 11 Erie. For the whole package, Erie report comes at $ 3898, compared to $ 4072 for the Atlantic Ocean.

Prices published by utilities insurance, regulators say, are only rough guidance.

The next step, experts suspect, is the Internet. On sites like Insweb.com and Quotesmith.com, consumers can obtain price quotations comparative about a half-dozen companies. Actual prices may vary, because Internet users often misunderstood or deliberately false answers (not as accelerating the release of a ticket) on issues of calculating the premium costs. Still, Internet prices are typically more sophisticated than the regulatory authorities’ Guides.

Insweb does not sell insurance directly on the Web, but also binds to a brokerage customer. Most experts on insurance show that consumers spend two or three agents - representatives of business and politics, several companies, before closing a deal.

Few people, even if a shop, so intense. Indeed, experts estimate that the vast majority of buyers of automobile insurance Shopping is not forever. Many people think that all auto insurance costs roughly the same, they buy the first agents to call. In fact, given that insurance is regulated, there is no collective bargaining in most countries.

While price is important, as most people want a just society which, if not generous, with claims. A ranking of insurance companies complaints to the provision of government insurance services. Of course, friends and neighbors are often willing to talk about their experiences, too.

New York and other out-of-staters try to beat you high automobile insurance rates, wrongly, registering their cars in New Jersey face fines is steep - up to 15000 $ - To identify a law signed today by Dir Jim Florio.

The new law allows a violation of the State Fraud Prevention Act, for each Out-of-State motorists wrongly on his legal residence in the demand for automobile insurance. First offender may be fined, $ 5000, a second offensive is subject to a fine of $ 10000, and the third and following offences, $ 15000

“People in this type of fraud to save money while New Jersey’s auto insurance lower prices, so the best way to eliminate this type of fraud is the elimination of economic incentives violated fines” , “Said Governor Florio signed the law in Newark today.

Although New Jersey residents have complained of excessively high rates of insurance, they are still significantly lower than the compensation within a large claim areas such as New York and Philadelphia, where investigators say the rate of tax evasion is the most often. Price Contrast

Prices in New Jersey, according to the division of insurance, currently averaging about $ 1000 per year, but the assurance of a car in New York or Philadelphia will cost over $ 3000 per year due to the high level of accidents and the rate of theft.

The main method of circumventing high tariffs in urban areas, registering a car in New Jersey with an address of an apartment in Jersey Shore, mediation or New Jersey parents to use their addresses, especially in rural or suburban areas, which are lower.

Mr. Florio said the circumvention of such costs New Jersey driver about $ 100 per year in premiums added to the requirements of the policy against the use of fraudulent documents New Jersey addresses.

The magnitude of the problem, it was proposed last May 20, if investigators New Jersey Insurance Fraud Division in Philadelphia and several districts of New York at the list and a photograph of vehicles with New Jersey plates, between 6 am and 9:30 in the morning. She recorded a total of 1147 plates from New Jersey, 663 in New York City and 484 in Philadelphia, a lot of expensive luxury cars. The differences in insurance rates is the biggest in cars more expensive because of rising costs of repair or replacement.

According to investigators will check the registration of the vehicle against other records - tax roles, credit reports, post records, school enrolment, benefits telephone bills lists of directories, employment records, insurance applications, registration of voters and records of companies leasing - Determine the true owner of the residence, more than 800 were actually living in New Jersey.

But without a special status, especially those of fraudulent registration process a crime, interest rates were fraudsters, subject only to civil remedies, if files an application for insurance. The normal course of action, if a fraudulent registration of the insurer discovers a general rule, an application was filed, was the resignation of the policy and refund of the premium.

Rate fraudsters were no criminal law could, in theory, for theft by deception - First of lower rates lies about the address - but the monitoring and proof has been difficult, and during the year 1989, the latest year for which statistics were only 23 people were charged of theft by deception, in such cases. 13,000 cases studied

But the department of the fight against fraud actually received more than 30000 complaints of tax evasion rate between 1988 and 1990, investigators began to focus on the problem. In 1990, about 13000 cases were examined, and almost 40 per cent rate of fraudsters involved, had said.

Investigators have said 95 per cent of cases involved Out-of-State residents fraudulent claims, New Jersey addresses.

New Jersey insurance officials, the new law there would be insurance companies and criminal prosecution authorities broader authority to physically inspect vehicles for the applicants have requested insurance.

In some cases, the insured person is easy to use, and a vehicle that is not present, is a policy, then the reports of car theft which does not exist and builds up in politics. Some insurance companies refer this type of fraud as “Phantom of the automobile.

State Farm, Progressive, Allstate and other insurers have been tripping another with ads promising to save Americans money on their automobile insurance. Drivers can be forgiven for asking what the Fang.

To be sure not every driver can save 15 percent, as some insurers promise, but many are finding significant discounts. This year, auto insurance premiums increase by only 1.5 percent while the national average, industry, commerce, the group considers the smallest increase in five years. Although costs of car repairs and medical care resulting from collisions have the wind in their sails, the group said, they are tempered by the decline in accidents of all laws and improvement in many countries to fight against the fraud.

“This is really a competitive industry, for insurance companies trying to do everything they can, for more business,” said Jean Salvatore, Senior Vice President Group Insurance Institute of information.

For Stephen Reginald, 47, a book, the publisher of Chicago, he took a continuing public officials Farm was the owner of his house handling policy to convince pass insurance in his 1993 Honda Accord. Mr. Reginald, he said led only if she went in the city, has been gradual, the third largest auto insurer, since 2002. He decided first gradually, he said, because of the convenience of using the Web site. But Mr. Reginald was able to save about $ 200 a year by the transition from State Farm. “It is really nice that someone on the ground,” he said.

Some recent decreases in the cost of premiums is the rule of regulatory measures. Most countries, insurers in a file annually review the plans for a process, it is reviewed and approved or rejected by the Commissioner of Insurance of the State. “It is the Commission for Employment Insurance, the use of Data Resources, to see if the sentences files threaten to inflate the market too much or too little reserve charge,” said Tim Wagner, chairman of a committee for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, an organization of the regulatory authorities. He is also director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance.

As Howard Mills, Superintendent of Insurance of New York State, observed fraud decline in prices over the past two years, he said, it became clear that auto insurance rates, which is necessary for adapt to new realities. Mr. Mills met with insurers to discuss rate reductions and as a result, 70 percent of buyers of auto insurance in the state, have lowered their premiums by 5 percent on average since last year.

New Jersey’s Department for banks and insurance companies to revise its auto insurance regulations in 2003, after more than 40 insurers left the state during the previous decade. Since then, 56 percent of policyholders have lived automatically reduces paragraph, for a total of over $ 300 million in savings of state, after 2005 the insurance industry self report published by the division of insurance.

Because often the owner changes insurance provider, if their policy renewal or they need for a driver or buy a new car. This gives insurers the ability to find new customers. It follows that attacks ads promoting the lower premiums.

“In general, men renew their current vehicle, so that insurers are trying to encourage people to compare and force a competitive market,” said Mark Presser, Deputy Assistant Superintendent and office - head of the New York State Insurance Department.

Price filing may be used for a variety of reasons. Texas, for example, some recent progress in the fight against fraud, which is likely to accelerate the decline in interest rates. And thanks to some changes in the laws of the State in 2003, more auto insurance are now available for business. The new operators in the “increased competition has helped reduce the rate of all,” said Commissioner of Insurance of Texas, Mike Geeslin.

Increased competition for Steve Gulledge’s, as he began pricing insurance shop for a new car. Mr. Gulledge, a musician in Spring, Tex., had his eye on an Audi TT, but chose a less sporty sedan when he discovered that his car insurance Audi would cost more than his car payment.

After weeding and Abschlepp offers features such as insurance and car rentals, Mr. Gulledge, 24, took place a few companies, Beat quote from its current location State Farm Agent. Finally, he said, he was able to convince his agents soft in the operation to a discount loyalty and to ensure that as long as their conduct has remained clean record, its deposit rate of $ 50 per month when he turns 25 at the end of the year.

Direction: When Geico decided in the negative automobile insurance for drivers of vehicles, “she said in possession of radar detectors, he expects no controversy. It has the meaning”,” said August p. Alegi, Deputy Vice President and General Counsel for the company. Own”detectors people for one reason only: to avoid speed limits. This makes unacceptable risks.

If Geico decided in the negative automobile insurance for drivers of vehicles, “she said in possession of radar detectors, he expects no controversy. It has the meaning”,” said August p. Alegi, Deputy Vice President and General Counsel for the company. Own”detectors people for one reason only: to avoid speed limits. This makes unacceptable risks.”

Geico, government staff Insurance Company, underestimated, as many opposition, the decision would wake up. The plan at the beginning of last year, a new debate about a product, which has touched the emotions of the driver, police officers, legislators and producers and for 20 years.

At the heart of the dispute, in Maryland, one of the many countries that are radar detectors legal. In December, a hearing was held in Baltimore by the state and settlement of licensing department to decide if Geico could deny, insurance, pilots are used. A decision is expected by early next month. Relying on honesty

Mr. Alegi acknowledged that the new requirement is very difficult to implement because insurers must relate to her honesty. Geico applications ask if the driver uses a detector, but do not say that insurance is denied to achieve. They are, by phone, are invited to the same question, but do not say that you answer yes, a disqualified. ”If it does not like it can go somewhere,’’said Alegi.

The real question is whether the detectors should be declared illegal. This is the first time that an insurance company has a booth, which on this issue.

This support, Geico argued that the detectors be used only as an opportunity for drivers to circumvent the acceleration cards, and it is a disadvantage for safety on roads. Those who take what they call die””Menschenverstand Display, point to Display dass”Detektoren say can help the Beat-Rap.”Some manufacturers promise to himself to pay speeding tickets . A need for a defence

Opponents of insurance claims that four million people in the USA, its own radar detectors are on the whole more secure, warning the pilot, and that the detectors are a means to fight against the maximum speed authorized, the only increase in revenue. They argue that the detectors schützen”das fundamental right to know when you are under surveillance.”

”It is a mistake that everyone has a warning radar is out there, around acceleration,’’said Janice Lee, president of the radio association rights Airwave Inc (radar), the group Trading as a representative of the radar detector industry, the vast approximately $ 350 million per year. Many tickets”there is a mistake, she said”,” and people need a defense.”

Ms. Lee and other pressure groups have been winners on the side of the argument. Over the past ten years, over 130 bills, outlaw radar detectors have been in many state legislators. But only, Connecticut, Virginia and the District of Columbia have declared illegal.

Assemblyman Robert A. D’Andrea, Saratoga Republican, was a bill, a few months ago to outlaw detectors in New York, but it was defeated in a committee vote because Mr. D’Andrea said que”cette question is on time, do not always come easy.”

Geico is the 11th largest issuer of automobile insurance the USA, with 1.5 million policyholders, and 5 more in New York. The pro-detector pressure groups fear that the position of the company could be made ripples in the insurance sector.

No other insurance companies have announced plans to deny, but Allstate, the second insurer vehicles in the country and the largest in New York, recently adopted a statement opposing radar detectors. NHTSA examines the effects of radar detectors on road safety.