Posted On: September 4, 2007, 11:48 am CDT

Posted By: LiveAgent

There are a lot of great points on this thread. But, it is also our industry who has trained the public to think the way they do; primarily the direct writers who have indoctrinated the public into believing that a cheap price translates somehow to "good" insurance.

The lizard tells you that you can "save", but no one ever questions what it would "cost" in inconvenience of drive-through claim centers, and fighting over such things as depreciated paint; or that with Insure.com by logging on you somehow become an "insurance genius", a misrepresentation of the facts if nothing less, but that demeans all agents by implying agents are dumb and unnecessary.

One thing I would agree with is that it is the industry who needs to "educate" the public, and it's the carriers not the agents duty. The carriers have been silent on the issue for too long, but I've noticed it has been the captives who have been doing a little about it, but not the IA carriers.