I am beginning to get a bit concerned with the amount for the amount of outright stupidity committed by people who work for government agencies. Now, we all see this as a regular joke. We all have come to expect that the TSA guy at the airport or the courts that processes your parking ticket is going to do something wrong. The problem is this. These regulators are getting dumber and dumber however they have absolute power over our lives. A regulator can, make a career out of making your life miserable if you rub them the wrong way.
Recently Lime Tree Underwriters moved to a new address. We filed a form LHL389 (November 2005 edition) Licensee Name/Address Change Request with the department of insurance.
Believe it or not they rejected the application!
It seems that they cannot read my signature. Can it be I am a freak and my signature is not legible? Perhaps it's too many years dealing in with doctors in medical malpractice insurance... imagine if the Texas state Board of medical examiners rejected every doctor signature. How many bills that the president has signed into law would have been rejected?
So I got on the phone with the Texas Department of Insurance. They told me I need to write my signature more legibly. (I suspect I had a small minded bureaucrat who simply thinks he needs to defend the inane decision of one of his coworkers -- thus providing a new inane answer himself).
I suggested to the Department of Insurance that signing my signature differently then the hundreds of thousands of prior signatures probably would not make my signature legally binding. They didn't want to hear it.
So I'm signing a special signature that is completely legible and sending it back to the Department of Insurance.
The funny thing is that all of this was done by US mail. All of the rejection letters they sent me are being sent to the new address. This despite the fact that they rejected the address change...
It never ends.
