Veteran sportswriter
Quinito Henson reported in today’s issue of the Philippine Star (July 6, 2015)
that the family of Samboy Lim is seeking redress from a big insurance company
for its agent’s depiction of the former PBA star as a “beggar”. Lim’s family
took offense at the Facebook post last April 30 of one AXA Philippines agent
identified by Henson in his report as Marie Quiblat. The FB post included Lim’s
picture and a story about a fund-raising for the cager.
The FB post by Quiblat
read as follows: “This is what financial advisors have been telling their
clients of their clients of ending up a beggar to their friends if they don’t
take care of their future now especially for critical illness
conditions... if it happened to Samboy Lim, who used to be a basketball
superstar, it can also happen to you… why shoulder all the bills when there is
a trusted partner like AXA Philippines to secure your future for just a
fraction of its cost… ask me how, ask me now.”
Lim’s family decried the
use of Lim’s name “in a cheap marketing trick to get people to buy insurance”
and its insinuation that Lim had been reduced to a beggar. The Lims pointed out
the the fund-raiser was started by the cager’s well-meaning friends.
AXA was said to have
apologized to the Lims on its FB page but the family wants it to issue a public
apology, set up a P1 million program to teach its agents marketing ethics, and
another P1 million to promote cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Doctor have said that
Lim’s brain had been deprived of oxygen for 23 minutes before he was revived.
They have surmised that his condition may have been far better had he been
administered CPR on court or while in transit to the hospital.
This sad tale mirrors how
insurance companies (medical, retirement, educational, name it) see
us people as milking cows, to which they would say anything and
everything, no matter how insensitive their pitches may be, just to get our
money. And then good luck to us their customers when the time comes for us to
collect on our supposed “benefits.”
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