They don’t usually dodge by claiming act of God.
It’s more like cutting estimates by 90% and threatening adjuster jobs if they don’t.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-family-hurricane-ian-insurance-payout-accusations-60-minutes/
When I arrived again in Australia, floods happened again—hm, maybe I’m the problem—anyway! Insurance companies were trying to get out of payments by saying flood damage was covered as a result of flooding from rain. And yes, rain obviously caused the flooding, but the rain occured up on mountains which then flowed down and flooded areas below.
The government regulators got onto it straight away.
The final attempt argument was something like “The insurances cover water coming from above, not below.”
Regulators didn’t have a bar of it. Insurance companies had to do—get this—insurance.
Everyone was happy except for insurance companies and the people that lost their homes and got financially held up for over a year as the insurance companies tried to find any leftover money for payouts because the rest was in funds. Of course.
TBH, an act of God is precisely what you want insurance for.
If we can pass a law requiring insurance companies to cover acts of a god, will they then acknowledge climate disasters as man-made?
That depends on what their accountants think will make them the most short term profits
The meme has a fair point, but its not my gripe with the insurance industry. Im of the opinion that the managers for collective risk products should not be for-profit organizations.
In the US, if a hypothetical agency or one of those weird orgs like the postal service ran national insurance they would not be as profit driven and their proximity to other governennt bodies would push much needed regulations forward.
Insurance being operated by profit-driven organizations runs into many of the exact same problems as for profit healthcare and oh look, more private insurance fuckery!
Can we take them for court for this and force them to prove God exists. Since they can’t it forces them to cover it…
Using an imaginary friend as excuse? Wtf
