After initial silence, Lockton discontinues brokering NRA-branded insurance

[pstokely]

Source: Kansas City Star

Lockton Cos., a Kansas City-based insurance brokerage, said on Monday that it will discontinue brokering National Rifle Association-branded insurance plans meant to cover policyholders involved in shooting incidents.

Lockton Affinity, a division of Lockton Cos., had partnered with the NRA on a liability insurance line called NRA Carry Guard. The policies, ranging from $250,000 to $1.5 million in coverage, were marketed as financial protection for policyholders involved in self-defense shootings.

Critics, including anti-NRA advocacy group Guns Down America, call NRA Carry Guard “murder insurance.”

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article202299304.html

[jimmil]

1. I am not so sure this is good for people.

Yes, it covered people who had been involved in a shooting. Say what you will, if you shoot someone in your home you will be charged with a crime in many states. With the insurance you first you call the police and report the shooting and second you call the insurance company. It is not an automatic get out of jail card free. It is a group of people from lawyers to crime scene investigators and everything in between that gather all the evidence they can, collect evidence the police had through the discovery process, and work your case for you. The police are working their case for them so they aren't on your side. It is more of an insurance that knows what to do rather than you blindly stumbling through the whole court system with no idea of what to do next. Even if you were totally within your rights protecting your family the court system is adversarial and there is a prosecutor who wants you to serve prison time because he can put another notch in his belt and campaign on law and order all the while you are in prison for doing what you rightfully could do. There are actually some people in prison that did not commit the crime they were charged with and convicted of. Yea, hard to believe in our oh so perfect system of justice. I personally think it is a good deal if you have firearms in your house and you use them for protection.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. It seems to me that this is all a result of the extremist position the NRA has taken

over many decades. If the organization would step back from their fetish-like obsession with firearms and the "their way or no way" mentality, regroup, and get rid of its lunatic mouth-pieces like LaPierre, they might be able to get back to their core mission.

Instead, they prefer to stoke CT in order to drive sales of weapons, ammunition, and accessories to support the manufacturing industry rather than to support/represent the owners.

[JI7]

3. the people in prison who don't belong there have nothing to do with not having this insurance

[Demsrule86]

5. It is a good thing...this was their get out of jail card...so to speak in civil court...now if they

kill someone...they will face financial ruin...excellent! Anyone who had such a policy was looking to kill someone in my opinon. So don't have firearms in your house or be willing to face the consequences. I have seen homeowners shoot someone in the back who was running away...which should be charged as murder.

[riversedge]

4. K