The reasons I ask this question are as follow:
1. A NiSource owned company seems to be refusing to pay a death benefit to a NIPSCO widow whose husband passed away over seven months ago. How can a company cobble up something as simple as this, you ask.....well, NIPSCO and NiSource have outsourced so much work that deals with real people, to either out of state or out of country companies who seem to only be in it for the buck and the language barrier is proving to be overwhelming to seniors.
2. In the Bremen, Indiana area, as I understand it, NIPSCO mailed out flyers advertising their so called Price Protection Service (PPS) and stating that anyone interested in more information would have a chance to win a colored television set. In this particular instance, the elderly customer mailed back for more information, hoping to win the television. A couple of weeks later, on a Sunday afternoon, a salesman from the U.S. Energy Savings Company came to her home and persuaded her to sign the contract.
3. As I understand the latest fiasco, in Ohio, customers were required by a NiSource Company to pay for the riser connecting the gas service to the meter which was installed by outside contractors. Now, so many of them leak and have to be replaced, the NiSource Company wants the customers to pay for the shoddy workmanship.
4. If I have the story straight, at least three NiSource owned companies are attempting to take away medical insurance benefits from retirees.
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It is sad to say, that many insurance companies prey upon the elderly. Hell, they prey on everyone. Who has not had some woes with insurance companies? Even folks with good "union" insurance (which is getting increasingly rare), insurance companies mismanagement gets into the pockets of the workers and family.
In Missouri, insurance companies have their own governer and state house to protect their intrests. In congress, who really stands up to these folks?
Until laws are changed (and I favor throwing CEO's in jail if their firms rip off the public), this will be old news.
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