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No more or less reprehensible than insurance companies trying to weasel out of paying ANY claim - Katrina comes to mind, as do hurricane victims in Florida and the gulf states (plenty of people that were left homeless by Charley, Ivan, Wilma, etc. still fighting their cases and living in trailers to this day).

Insurance companies are the scum of the earth. I avoid them like the plague. Nobody should be FORCED to carry insurance. Massachusetts is trying that with a minimum health care coverage requirement for all residents now. I find this to be little more than a suck-up to the insurance industry. I say keep it personal choice, but regulate the hell out of them, tax the schit out of them and when they screw up (such as when they play games of trying to "string along" claimants and out-last them because their pockets are deeper), make it public record. No more of these "no admission of guilt" settlements. Then you'd see some reform and some competition on what they ought to be competing on - service and premiums.