Take a hard look at insurance company policies
Steve Blow nailed a couple of reasons people appeal traffic tickets.
Another important reason people take the time and trouble, and, as a consequence, consume public resources in the form of police officer time spent hanging around the municipal courts, is the insurance industry. If we could do away with the "points" doled out to ticketed drivers, which are then reported to insurance companies and soon thereafter result in higher insurance rates, most folks, me included, would simply take the deferred adjudication, pay the fine and move on. The problem is that you can't do that without appealing the ticket.
If the insurance industry didn't care about how much money I paid in traffic fines, I wouldn't bother appealing my traffic tickets.
The question becomes whose pocketbook is more important, the public's or private insurance companies'? I vote for the public's purse.
Letter appeared in the Opinion section of the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, in regards to Steve Blow's Traffic Ticket article.
©2007 Angel Reyes
www.ReyesLaw.com
Another important reason people take the time and trouble, and, as a consequence, consume public resources in the form of police officer time spent hanging around the municipal courts, is the insurance industry. If we could do away with the "points" doled out to ticketed drivers, which are then reported to insurance companies and soon thereafter result in higher insurance rates, most folks, me included, would simply take the deferred adjudication, pay the fine and move on. The problem is that you can't do that without appealing the ticket.
If the insurance industry didn't care about how much money I paid in traffic fines, I wouldn't bother appealing my traffic tickets.
The question becomes whose pocketbook is more important, the public's or private insurance companies'? I vote for the public's purse.
Letter appeared in the Opinion section of the Dallas Morning News on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, in regards to Steve Blow's Traffic Ticket article.
©2007 Angel Reyes
www.ReyesLaw.com
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