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Having the right job
could mean cheaper
Allstate car insurance

DEPENDING on your profession -- past or present -- you may qualify for discounted car insurance.

Allstate Insurance Co.'s actuaries have determined that current and retired architects, clergy, engineers, mathematics professionals, optometrists, paramedics and other emergency medical technicians, pharmacists, educators, physical scientists and veterinarians are lower-risk drivers. The company has decided to reward qualified drivers in these professions with discounts of up to 10 percent.

"We have found that, overall as a group, people in these occupations tend to have fewer losses than the general population and therefore we can offer them a discount," said Michelle Lee, Allstate field vice president.

The discount is offered only in Hawaii, Alabama and South Carolina as a test project, according to Scott Richardson, regional communications manager for Allstate.

To spread the word, the company will contact current policyholders and various professional organizations and education associations, "but one doesn't have to be a member of an organization to receive the discount," said Richardson.

If the actuaries reviewed professions with higher losses or at higher risk, they didn't share the results with Richardson. "I don't have data on that," he said.

Watery freebie

Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park is offering free admission to a select group from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Veterans Day.

The freebie is for active duty military personnel, reservists, National Guard members and military retirees. Dependents and other guests will be admitted at half the regular price, said Special Events Manager Sean Gano.

FCC auction day 5

Interest in building a radio station in Hawaii boosted from two to three the number of Hawaii FM radio licenses getting top 10 bids in a federal auction yesterday.

Day five of the Federal Communications Commission's ongoing auction saw a $1.6 million bid for the license in Kihei, Maui. At No. 10, it joined the high bids of just under $2 million each for No. 5 Nanakuli and No. 6 Wahiawa, that have finished in the top 10 since the auction of 88 licenses began a week ago.

Visionary Related Entertainment LLC, the lone Hawaii-based broadcast bidder, is still in the running as yesterday's $1.4 million high-bidder for a license in Kaunakakai.

The auction resumes today.

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