Posted On: January 30, 2006, 3:37 pm CST

Posted By: Doug

How is getting Geico and Progressive into Massachusetts going to help the homeowners' situation? Neither of them sell homeowners. Furthermore, Allstate and State Farm -- whose reserves the Commsissioner apparently doesn't include in her calculations -- already sell homeowners in Mass but not on the coast. Bowler seriously underestimates the size of the surplus -- which is more than $110 billion -- as a sop to out of state companies so she can try to get auto reform passed. She should deal with them as separate, and different, issues.