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I just sent an e-mail to Lorie Terry(1), spokesperson for the coalition of no-fault insurance, as a reply to her previous e-mail where she provides me, other people and all Saskatchewan MLAs, with the CBC Saskatchewan web page "SGI calls seniors hurt in car accidents over compensated." This web page reports SGI president, Larry Fogg, saying that "some elderly people who are injured in accidents are getting too much money. The payments are based on how much a person could earn if they were working. But Fogg says many older people don't earn a wage. So, he says, those people are getting money they don't deserve(2)."

Mr. Larry Fogg is not only an incompetent executive in regard to assessing the risks, premiums and related benefits associated with no fault insurance, but he is also a bean counter who is unable to have a social perspective of the insurance scheme he should administer through SGI. It is not a coincidence that Larry Fogg is the man who has provided the no-fault numbers for the botched Dr. Cassidy's study on no-fault(3).

Under the banner of saving money and No-Fault this government is making a mess of everything it touches, and as usual it is No-Fault and it is somebody else's fault: the seniors' fault at this time for being seniors!

I have sent this message to Lorie: "I have attended the Prince Albert no-fault coalition meeting last Saturday and I have confirmation that this leadership can be equated to the... In Prince Albert,. Dr. George Gale(4) stated that the democratic maturity of a society is the reflection on how this society treats its minorities: taking this reflection as a 'proxy' for the maturity of democracy then Saskatchewan would score very very badly!"

As I have already mentioned in another article, No-Fault is not an administrative matters, it is a political matters affecting us all(5). That is, we need to get rid of both No-Fault Insurance and this No-Fault Government.

Endnotes and references

Coalition Against No Fault In Saskatchewan, Box 24007, 240 Albert Steet, Regina, Saskatchewan S4R 8R8, (306)546-4424, coalition@dlcwest.com http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/

General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by Ensign

1. Lorie Terry is a spokesperson for the Coalition Against No Fault Insurance. Box 27004, 240 Albert St., Regina, Saskatchewan, S4R 8R8 (306) 546-4424, <lorie@dlcwest.com> http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/

2. SGI calls seniors hurt in car accidents "over-compensated", CBC Saskatchewan http://www.sask.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/06/13/sgiold000613 Web Posted | Jun 13 2000 1:54 PM EDT

3. The Incredible Abuse of Saskatchewan No-Fault Insurance, by Mario deSantis, May 31, 2000

4. Dr. George Gale, Clinical Director, Rothbart Pain Management Clinic, Toronto, Expert on Chronic Pain Management,"Whiplash Injury and Post Traumatic Syndrome plus Precise Diagnosis of Spinal Pain and Its Palliation," Coalition against no-fault, meeting of June 10, 2000, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

5. No-Fault is not an administrative matter, it is a politcal matter, it affects all of us, Mario deSantis, June 11, 2000