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N.Y. CAR LEASING TAKES TO AIRWAVES:
May 17 2004 // An auto industry group, The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, has launched a radio advertising campaign directed at the Democratic-controlled New York Assembly trying to prod the lawmakers into revoking the...
Mass. Gov. Romney Kicks Auto Insurance Reform into High Gear
May 17 2004 // The industry officials who run the private passenger auto high risk system in Massachusetts have started drawing up rules in response to urgings by the administration of Gov. Mitt Romney to make their operations and the...
PCI Urges Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers to Adopt Changes in Way It Operates
May 6 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has urged the Commonwealth Automobile Reinsurers (CAR) Governing Committee, the board that oversees the high-risk auto insurance pool in Massachusetts, to...
Mass. Commissioner Orders High Risk Pool Changes Within 30 Days; Governor Names Reform Task Force
Apr 30 2004 // Just hours after Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler formally called upon the industry to come up with a plan to change the way private passenger auto high risks are handled, officials of Commonwealth Auto...
Report on Mass. Auto Cites Rate Subsidies and Barriers to Entry; Romney to Name Task Force
Apr 29 2004 // A much-anticipated analysis of the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance system finds that 14 percent of the state’s drivers pay less than loss costs indicate they should, while 86 percent pay more to...
Mass. Streamlines and Equalizes Agents’ Access to CAR’s Commercial Auto High Risk Operation
Apr 17 2004 // The Massachusetts auto insurance industry is streamlining the way it handles high risk commercial auto risks by reducing the number of servicing carriers involved in handling them and equalizing access to the residual...
In Mass., Good Drivers Lose Discounts While Employer Groups Retain Theirs
Feb 9 2004 // Only three of the 19 companies still writing private passenger auto insurance in Massachusetts will offer discounts to safe drivers this year. Five years ago, there were one-third more writers of the coverage and most of...
XL Completes Audit; Expects $694 Million Pre-Tax Charge for 2003
Jan 14 2004 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. has completed its reserve review, begun last October, and confirmed that it will take some substantial charges, affecting both fourth quarter and annual results. It plans to raise at least...
FISHER TO GIVE UP STATE CAR:
Nov 3 2003 // After pleading no contest to a charge of driving while intoxicated, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher agreed to give up his official state car, according to Associated Press reports. He was driving his state...
Associations Tell Mass. Commissioner to Let Competition Determine Auto Premiums
Jun 4 2003 // Private passenger auto insurance premiums should be determined competitively and the Massachusetts Division of Insurance should move toward that goal carefully, but expeditiously, wrote the National Association of Mutual...
CAR-BUYING QUIRKS
Feb 12 2001 // A survey of consumers’ new car-buying attitudes conducted by Progressive Insurance finds that many people place a higher value on the looks of a new car than on its safety features. Ranked in order of importance to...
