Portable persistency News

Worker’s Comp Reforms, Portable Persistency Top West’s 2012 Headlines

Dec. 21, 2012 came and went and the apocalypse was so lackluster as to be forgotten among the year’s myriad headlines. Now that we are all well and good, and past doomsday, here are Insurance Journal’s best headlines in the …

Calif. Prop. 33 Defeated

Update: Californians Lump Props. 32 and 33; a Referendum on the ‘B’ Word The second automobile insurance persistency initiative put to Californians in the last two years was defeated. California’s Proposition 33, the 2012 Automobile Insurance Discount Act, was defeated …

Portable Persistency Now Prop. 33; Consumer Watchdog Attacks

An initiative to establish portable persistency discounts for automobile insurance on Tuesday was assigned a number by the Secretary of State, and shortly afterward the newly named Proposition 33 came under attack by Santa Monica, Calif.-based Consumer Watchdog. Prop. 33, …

Consumer Watchdog Failure Could Help Auto Discount Initiative

Santa Monica, Calif.-based Consumer Watchdog’s proposed ballot measure to require health insurance companies to get approval before raising their rates narrowly missed qualifying for November’s ballot by Thursday’s deadline – Consumer Watchdog got 109 percent of the signatures necessary to …

Auto Insurance Discount Initiative May be Gaining Bipartisan Endorsement

The backers of an automobile insurance persistency initiative are making steps to gain bi-partisan support for their proposition, which is slated for California’s Nov. 6 ballot and a possible showdown with what would be a competing initiative. Just days after …