I used State Farm, because I’ve had car insurance with them since I could drive, and renters/owner’s insurance since I moved out on my own. I had discounts both for multi-line and loyalty.
Yes, there is some interaction with a person involved. And you have to sit through some amount of sales-pitching. But ultimately it boils down to answering a few questions (2-3 minutes), signing a few papers (1-2 minutes), sitting through some process & pitching (30-40 minutes), and then having someone come to your house a few days later to take some blood and measurements (10-15 minutes). Everything else was done via mail/email/fax.
Heck, my agent had to do much more work than I did, previous to this she didn’t know that you can designate someone other than yourself as the owner of the policy, required some training.
I tried a State Farm guy, and he was nice enough, but he wanted a saliva sample (not blood) and could not tell me what it was for. He gave me an explicitly partial list but couldn’t complete it for me. That was spooky. I don’t want to do that.
Come to think of it, I didn’t even bother asking what the blood sample was for. But I tend to be exceptionally un-private. I don’t expect privacy to be a part of life among beings who regularly share their source code.
It’s not a matter of privacy. I can’t think of much they’d put on the list that I wouldn’t be willing to let them have. (The agent acted like I could only possibly be worried that they were going to do genetic testing, but I’d let them do that as long as they, you know, told me, and gave me a copy of the results.) It was just really not okay with me that they wanted it for undisclosed purposes. Lack of privacy and secrets shouldn’t be unilateral.
I used State Farm, because I’ve had car insurance with them since I could drive, and renters/owner’s insurance since I moved out on my own. I had discounts both for multi-line and loyalty.
Yes, there is some interaction with a person involved. And you have to sit through some amount of sales-pitching. But ultimately it boils down to answering a few questions (2-3 minutes), signing a few papers (1-2 minutes), sitting through some process & pitching (30-40 minutes), and then having someone come to your house a few days later to take some blood and measurements (10-15 minutes). Everything else was done via mail/email/fax.
Heck, my agent had to do much more work than I did, previous to this she didn’t know that you can designate someone other than yourself as the owner of the policy, required some training.
I tried a State Farm guy, and he was nice enough, but he wanted a saliva sample (not blood) and could not tell me what it was for. He gave me an explicitly partial list but couldn’t complete it for me. That was spooky. I don’t want to do that.
Huh. That is weird. I don’t blame you.
Come to think of it, I didn’t even bother asking what the blood sample was for. But I tend to be exceptionally un-private. I don’t expect privacy to be a part of life among beings who regularly share their source code.
It’s not a matter of privacy. I can’t think of much they’d put on the list that I wouldn’t be willing to let them have. (The agent acted like I could only possibly be worried that they were going to do genetic testing, but I’d let them do that as long as they, you know, told me, and gave me a copy of the results.) It was just really not okay with me that they wanted it for undisclosed purposes. Lack of privacy and secrets shouldn’t be unilateral.