Atlantic City casinos closing...

As a kid our family took our vacations in Ocean City just South of AC. It was a very nice place. It has been well over 40 years since our last family gathering there. Last time I was in AC was within a few years after Resorts, Harrahs, Playboy Club and the Golden Nugget were the name gamers, over 30 years ago. What was so striking was the boardwalk area and the rest of the city which was squalid and seedy much like I always remembered that place. It seems that greed always overtakes hope in the long run but then again hope was short lived after reality set in for those that live or lived in AC during those times and now.

Not to get too far off point here and certainly not to defend Insurance Companies, I'd be near the bottom of that list, but what about the insurance fraudsters ZD? Several years back my nephew who was 16 years old at the time on a learner's permit with my wife present was 2 cars back of a stop light and decided to switch in the far left lane and scraped the bumper of the commercial pickup truck in front of him. Long story short the guy in the truck feigned a "back injury", sued me for the limits of my liability policy which was well over 100k, sat in the insurance companies office with his attorney present I would add, and talked with his wife about the car he was going to get right with his money in front of my wife and myself while we waited to give our depositions. This is no joke, it really happened.

A friends daughter, who years back was a claims adjuster for a large auto Insurance Company, (go Flo) told me that well over 70% of the claims she dealt with were to varying degrees fraudlent. So it wouldn't surprise me that insurance companies take the low road as many of those they insure. A very sad testimony indeed.

Footnote to the story, they ended up settling for 40K for absolutely nothing, no damage to the truck whatsoever while my car had a scrape on the side totalling 1.5K of damage.

Ah, memories of the "diving" horse at the Steel Pier not to mention all the top acts of those yonder years including to your's Evelyn:" the Temptations, Four Tops and Supremes in their hey day.