The word out of Hollywood is that a TV pilot is being shot for a situation comedy featuring those ticked-off cavemen who make the GEICO commercials such a riot. What's next? A show with the AFLAC duck as the star? Perhaps we are headed for the day when an entire TV network will spring up featuring insurance programming. Imagine the possibilities!
Among the programs that could hit the cable box:
–Insurance Survivor: A reality TV show pitting small mutual and regional insurers against one another after being stripped of their federal antitrust immunity. Let's see how long these smaller carriers last when they can't share data or policy language!
–Insurance 24: Jack Bauer, retired from CTU to lead a quieter life as an insurance adjuster, finds himself thrust into a different catastrophe each week, facing off against thousands of angry claimants.
–Insurance Idol: Industry leaders literally face the music as they come up against a trio of skeptical judges on a variety of allegations, including New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who led the charge against contingency fees, and industry gadfly J. Robert Hunter, insurance director of the Consumer Federation of America. The big question is, who would take on Paul Abdul's role as the kinder, gentler judge, who supports the industry no matter how tone deaf they are? Any suggestions?
–Insurance Jeopardy: Home- and small-businessowners are challenged to make heads or tails of some tricky policy exclusions and contract language. The loser is forced to go bare!
–Meet The Insurance Press: Editors from leading insurance publications yell at one another about the top challenges facing the industry.
–Show Me The Money: Top insurance brokers struggle to replace billions in contingency fees while disclosing new incentive compensation deals to apathetic risk managers.
–People's Insurance Court: Claimants battle it out with adjusters and insurers over less-than-clear causes of loss and murky coverage terms. No class-actions (or trial lawyers) permitted.
–Wheel Of Insurance Fortune: Carriers are forced to watch a jury spin a wheel to arbitrarily come up with outrageous figures for punitive damage awards.
–Law & Order SIU: Latest entry of this tired franchise features hot shots from a new crack Special Investigation Unit who foil insurance frauds for a fictional carrier.
–Insurance Chef: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell talks about how many ways he has seen rubber chicken prepared as he's earned a small fortune delivering stale, self-deprecating keynote addresses to just about every single insurance-related conference in the industry.
Any other suggestions???
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