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Police ID woman killed in Stony Brook crash as Roslindale resident
By adamg on Sun, 11/16/2014 - 6:46pm
State Police report the woman who died in a rollover on Enneking Parkway in Hyde Park early Saturday was Lillian Grover, 41, of Roslindale.
Jeffrey Mason, 42, of Walpole faces a variety of charges, including motor-vehicle homicide while drunk and being arrested for drunk driving for the fourth time for the crash, around 2:30 a.m. near the intersection with Turtle Pond and Dedham parkways in Stony Brook Reservation.
State Police say Mason will be arraigned Monday, although he is still in the hospital with his own injuries, which means he could be arraigned in his hospital bed, rather than in West Roxbury Municipal Court.
Innocent, etc.
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Ah, Massachusetts
Where your taxes get raised if you don't buy a product that pays to keep strangers alive, but where drunk drivers are allowed four strikes with which to kill people.
oh right.
I forgot it was "shoehorn something else you're POed about into a comment about a totally unrelated story" week on UH. On that note, why doesn't the 89 bus go to Davis on Sundays?
I don't care about the bus
Because I have a car and I'm better than you, pauper.
An uninsured car
No doubt.
Dirty socialist insurance mandates!
You paid to pave the roads yourself, right? Oh, and then there's that dirty socialist street parking ...
No, I carry car insurance
Because it's not a ripoff. $66 a month? I'll pay that, and I do.
Define "ripoff"
What is the yardstick you are using to determine that car insurance is "not a ripoff" and health insurance is? I believe the better health insurance plans in mass. have medical loss ratio in excess of 90%, which is in the same neighborhood as the loss ratios for car insurance.
Cost to me
$66 a month to cover a 2011 SUV = good deal
$170 a month to cover my health = not worth it
And please explain to me what "loss ratios" are. Is this like takeout, which I frequently inquire about in regards to the insurance business? Are you saying that insurance companies only spend less than 10% of premiums on overhead?
Odd calculus, but to each his own
In order to decide if something is "a ripoff" or not, don't you need to know what the value is, relative to the price paid? Otherwise, how are you going to decide whether $50 for a ham sandwich is a better or worse deal than $200 for a bicycle?
Loss ratio is (approximately) the percentage of premiums received that are paid out in claims. Insurance is, in general, a very low margin business. Life insurance can sometimes show loss ratios of slightly greater than 100%, which seems impossible until you realize that they generally hold your premium for a long time (and earn investment income on it) until payout, and, in the life insurance business, claims administration is stupid easy (see the death certificate, send a check) and only happens once per policy at most.
That's the first honest answer I've received
I'd say I have a poor understanding of how insurance works. And I'm an investor in Berkshire, so I know a little about it from reading Warren's annual reports.
It sounds like an interesting business, but also one with a lot of red tape.
What does $170 per month health insurance buy you?
What kind of health coverage does $170 per month buy? I pay $1,800 per month for a family of four, for more-or-less middle-of-the-road coverage.
Didn't cover my preferred eye doc
And that's the only doctor I see, so I told the insurer to screw and stopped buying their product.
was wondering about this...
...biked by this site yesterday and it didn't look good for someone. unbelievable this guy still had a license.
unbelievable this guy still
How are you enjoying your first day in Massachusetts?
My wife and I knew Lillian
We went to a birthday party for one of her kids once. She was a nice person. It's an awful thing to happen. May she rest in peace.
What I don't get
It says the driver was charged with "Leaving the Scene of Personal Injury". It sounds like he was trapped in the car, how did he leave the scene?