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Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar
 Much better than one run by lawyers, and held down by regulation and overreach. Insurance companies are usually publicly held, and have a fiduciary duty to their share holders. This doesn't change, it is 'known going in'. I want to give insurance companies as little of my money as possible, but I respect them in a business sense. Are you against insurance companies maximizing shareholder value?..If you are, those aren't the words of someone who believes in Capitalism. I don't have the highest opinion in the world of the insurance industry, but it is higher than that of the legal profession.
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Why do insurance companies need so much of your money? Fraud, lawyers, and healthcare.
I remember vividly a few years back when there was a huge public outcry in Canada to reduce automobile insurance premiums. This outcry was because the insurance industry as a whole generated a profit on automobile insurance for the first time in years. What really made me shake my head at the time was the profit made, by
all of the Canadian insurers for the
year, was about equal to what just
one of the 4 major banks in the country reports as a
quarterly profit.