Lippard.Multics 1986-11-12 16:03:33 mst Wed
Subject:  Risk of aging
Date:  Wednesday, 12 November 1986 01:27 mst
From:  Paul Dickson <Dickson>
To:  {mbx >udd>m>jjl>misc>misc}

From: RISKS-FORUM Digest,  Monday, 10 November 1986  Volume 4 : Issue 9
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Date: 10 Nov 86 12:26:56 PST (Monday)
Subject: Risk of aging
From: Breisacher.OsbuSouth@Xerox.COM (Lee F. Breisacher)
To: RISKS@CSL.SRI.COM

From LA Times, Saturday, November 8, 1986:

G.C. Blodgett, a living legend as an outdoorsman in New England, drives a
car to his favorite fishing spots from his home in West Babylon, Mass., but
he almost quit this year when his insurance bill arrived.  His son told the
Providence Journal: "He wanted to know why the premium was three times as
much as the previous year.  So we called the insurance company, and after a
while, the fellow there came back laughing and explained that their computer
calculated premiums for drivers up to 100 years old.  After that, it started
at the beginning again, so he was being charged the premium of a teen-ager."

Blodgett is 101.