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Massachusetts driver file more property damage and theft claims as a driver or somewhere in the country, are faced with two rates of growth and a reluctance by insurers in writing, to continue the policy of the State.

Massachusetts driver file more property damage and theft claims as a driver or somewhere in the country, are faced with two rates of growth and a reluctance by insurers in writing, to continue the policy of the State.

Since June, nearly a dozen companies, including travellers and businesses Hartford, challenges the jurisdiction of state regulation of the insurance system.

Another, Fireman’s Fund Insurance, continued in the state this week, this is not an agreement on the commitments of the state, she said must be met before can not stop writing insurance policies auto. Fireman’s, wrote the policy 235000 vehicles, a petition witdraw of Massachusetts in July, citations operating losses. Reform proposal defeated

Two other companies, Peerless mutual insurance company and Shelby of Ohio, stopped underwriting insurance policies car here last year. The state has found other insurers willing to reflect on the policies released by the driver to leave public enterprises of regulatory authorities, but recognize there are serious problems.

And efforts to find solutions have been if the House of Representatives of the State rejected proposals for amendment of the insurance scheme.

Dir Michael S. Dukakis had pushed the legislature in the last month, an update of the state 17-year-old no-fault system and the prevention of theft, fraud and abuse.

While some parts of the bill was governor of insurance companies, Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association lobbying against him. The lawyers were displeased, a provision that would have been thrown, the minimum required for filing a complaint from $ 500 to $ 2000. Zweistelligen rate increases

The house knocked administration, if it rejects the bill on September 28, without debate and without compensation. No other self-insurance was adopted by the legislature since then.

”Of course, we are angry because the dates and counsel of the parties to an increase doubt that we would prefer not to allow,’’said Insurance Commissioner Roger M. Singer. ”The reason why we also spent considerable time on the bill was to be avoided.”

Consumer Affairs Secretary or said Paula W. driver would have undoubtedly increased rates to two. The governor of the Society of packages, the increase would have been maintained at around 6 percent, she said.

For the first time in four years, all parties to the process of price regulation of insurance have agreed that the increase is justified. Insurers have more than 32.3 percent against the State Public Prosecutor-General recommended growth of 4.4 percent. The State Rating Bureau, a branch of the Division of Insurance public, recommended a 4.2 percent increase. The highest rate of car theft

On the bottom line is the number of applications for policyholders and the reluctance of the State to allow adjustments in tax rates, industry. In 1986, we Massachusetts driver 7 property damages for every 100 insured vehicles in the country. The property rights of damages is the highest in the country, 67 percent higher than the national average and 38 percent higher than New York, in fifth place.

For most of the last 10 years, Massachusetts, also the highest rate of car theft across the country.

But Jeffrey C. Beyer, director regional information on the insurance institute, a research organization represents nearly 250 insurers in the country, said prices have increased by 11 per cent in Massachusetts over the past four years, compared to 40 percent nationally.

The sentence structure, the insurer to designate, more and more assurance that their high-risk drivers to pay higher premiums, or about 60 percent of state drivers are at high risk of the pool.