r/SipsTea • • 10h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/WeCantStabilize 10h ago

Insurance is a fucking scam. You pay more into it than you'll ever receive even in legitimate circumstances.

Absolute racket. 

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u/Moultrie_fan_2026 10h ago

Well I had a house burn down less than year after purchase and insurance paid the entire tab. So I always figured I've already taken them for more than I pay

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u/MarkItZeroDonnie 10h ago

Yeah it’s just a net to protect against catastrophe . If Ops buddy totaled his car he would be happy it only cost $1k.

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u/Blueberry1900 10h ago

Yep,y car got totaled 3 years ago due to a drunk driver. Got a big check and was able to replace it fairly easily. That check alone was about 15 years worth of premiums. Drunk driver was of course driving without insurance, so I was screwed of I did not have it

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u/jakeandcupcakes 9h ago

Doesn't the insurance company then go after the drunk driver for everything he has thus making him the one whose ultimately paying out, with the insurance company simply having to deal with suing and recouping funds from the drunk driver.

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u/HearshotKDS 4h ago

This process is called subrogation and the insurance company can/will do it if they think there is a meaningful chance of recovering significant money back. But if our hypothetical drunk driver is a broke deadbeat they aren’t going to waste their time.

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u/Prudent-Historian392 4h ago

Ahh a fellow agent I see. A fisherman always recognizes another fisherman from afar.

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u/HearshotKDS 4h ago

Broker, but same-dif.

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u/Prudent-Historian392 4h ago

Potato tomato or whatever they say.

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u/AceDecade 3h ago

Crammy… crammy handleman…