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deer insurance-
Jefferson H.S
11/9/2009
There are 1 and a half million collisions between a
deer and automobile every year. Thousnads
of people are injured and over 1 billion dollars to
vehicles. When you get in an accident your
insurance will help you with your vehicle. Injury
claims can go well over 10,000 dollars on
collisions. We help people by putting up big
noticable yellow signs that say "DEER
CROSSING", so when you see the deer crossing sign,
just make sure you slow down to decrease
deer accidents, although this is effective, it is
still not enough to limit the amount of accidents
thoat occur annually. We as insurance people would
like to see a decrease in the deer
popluation, in order to do this we would encourage
trappers to capture wild natural predators,
such as coyotes, and introduce them into the the
area. We would offer the trapper a premium
for the predatores introduced into the area.
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11/14/2009
2:52:00 PM
It is an interesting idea that insurance companies get
involved in changing the
environment to reduce the number of animal-car
accidents. What kind of “premium” are
you talking about and how much would the insurance
companies be willing to spend?
Also, introducing more animals, even if they are
predators, means more animals total (at
least for awhile). How many predators do we need to
introduce? How long it will take
until accidents starts to decline?
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deer insurance - Insurance Company - JHS
11/16/2009
12:43:00 PM
The kind of premium we are refering to is money. We as
insurance companies
are willing to pay a lot of money to get the level of
deer population down. We
would be willing to pay out thousands of dollars to
trappers to bring the
predators into the places where deer population is
heavy. Yes, introducing
predators into more places does mean more animals, but
that will decline as well.
Although they are predators to the deer there are
animals that are their
predators as well,this will decline the populations of
the predators, but not
enough to bring back up the populations of deer again.
Predators are there in
the wild just as deer are, but adding more will speed up
the process for lowering
the deer population. We can not be too sure on how long
it will take for this
stuff to come into effect.We are hopping that it will
not take too long so the
accidents do not go on for too much longer.