Years ago I worked for Allstate Insurance. Lancaster Pennsylvania was part of the area that I covered. A car was traveling through and didn't see an Amish boy walking along the road at dusk. The Allstate insured struck and filled the young boy. He was about 12 years old. The Amish REFUSED payment for medical care and REFUSED any other form of payment for the death of the boy. The case remained open for a year or so and the Amish REFUSED offers from Allstate for any financial assistance. They refused to sign any forms. The Amish took care of ALL expenses themselves. You really don't understand the mindset of the Amish.
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The Allstate insured struck and KILLED the young boy.
Once again, stop hyperventilating. I understand the Amish viewpoints just fine, I lived in Amish country in the past. I am just pointing out that their unwillingness to adapt to rubber wheels - out of what I think is a rather misguided application of their views towards pridefulness - leads to a conflict with local goverments over the damage their steel wheels (and especially on their heavy farm equipment) does to roads. They can be highly selective with their application of modern technology, such as allowing motors to perform farm functions as long as a motor is not actually providing the propulsion for the device - which is why you see horses pulling a gas-powered hay baler for example, or an old Amish man with a long white beard running a weed wacker around the yard (yes, I have seen both). Yet they won’t allow something as simple as rubber wheels that would resolve the damages their vehicles cause to paved roadways.
>> Years ago I worked for Allstate Insurance ... The Amish REFUSED payment for medical care and REFUSED any other form of payment ... the Amish REFUSED offers from Allstate for any financial assistance. They refused to sign any forms.
The Amish are not the only ones that do this. In 1989 I was a passenger in a serious head-on car accident (70 mph closure rate). I was in agony for 6 weeks - I had broken my sternum and ended up with a split heartbeat. Since my employer’s insurance company paid the hospital bill, I never filed, or collected a dime from the motorist’s insurance company. They incessantly nagged me for a year. I never signed anything, either.