The actions of AIG amount to elder abuse. They depict the slimiest business practices possible with a product pitched to protect families: life insurance.
California Department of Insurance, along with several states, announced a settlement with Nationwide companies to pay old unclaimed life insurance benefits to the states and reform its business practices.
Hospital indemnity insurance is just one of the products that are fraudulently marketed as real health insurance. These indemnity plans are specifically targeting people with pre-existing conditions.
My “fire in the belly”, as sales professionals call it, has been extinguished. I’ll stick to what makes the passion bubble inside of me which is helping and educating people.
Fortunately, I took a wrong turn heading to the campus and we ended up in the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. We were enjoying a pleasant hike when we stumbled upon a rare albino redwood growing next to the tracks.
I was surprised at how both the interior and exterior elements of the mission would draw me in and provide a sense of comfort. This history explains the primitive but informative seismometer inside the mission.
130 years after the water cannons were silenced, significant scarring remains. Willows trees and brush, phreatophytes, are growing thick (I got lost in them) and trying to reclaim the pit. We are still left with a 7,000 foot drain tunnel and the lingering effects on the Sacramento Valley from the elevated river bottom that all of the hydraulic mining drained into.
Those who will be attracted to the ultimate three dimensional life size folk art creation known as Nit Wit Ridge will be either artists, eccentrics or old junk collectors like my me.