Posted On: May 12, 2005, 9:25 am CDT

Posted By: chris lapetina

I assume someone, somewhere has made dumber remarks than the ones made by Ernie Csiszar in your article on Spitzer's insurance investigation, but Ernie must be right up there with the dumbest of all time. First he admits that if there were crimes committed they should be prosecuted. Spitzer did find crimes and he did prosecute. Then he goes on to say we (I assume he means the insurance industry) "have been defenseless over the years and its our fault". It sounds like that's an admission that the insurance industry has failed to police itself and that government (let's remember that Ernie was a state insurance regulator)has also failed to protect consumers against the industry's bad actors. I must Mr. Csiszar really can't make an intelligent argument against Spitzer's work but feels the need to say anything that comes out of his mouth, regardless of how baseless it is.