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Are You Being Overcharged For Your Auto Insurance?

June 7, 2010 – 4:22 pm

This past May the state attorney general announced four additional insurance companies to pay fines and compensate 10,000 auto insurance customers who were being charged auto premiums with inaccurate accident reports indicating they had not been at fault. The four companies to re-pay customers unfairly determined premiums are: Abrella Mutual, Norfolk & Dedham, United Service [...]

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Managed Compeition… Success.

October 9, 2009 – 7:38 am

April 1st 2008 Massachusetts let the auto insurance industry loose. Shifting from state regulated rates to a managed competition many changes were brought to the Massachusetts auto insurance industry and consumers. A study by the Department of Insurance analyzing this change included: a preliminary survey of 1,100 consumers, a comprehensive 30-minute survey of more than [...]

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Keep Insurance Rates Low

September 30, 2009 – 7:22 am

Q: What’s the easiest way to keep low insurance rates? A: With a clean drivers record. Not only will you need to pay that speeding ticket, you’ll be paying for it the next couple years on your auto insurance. Insurance companies determine your rates in part by what kind of a driver you are. If [...]

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Looking for a Place to Find Auto Insurance in Mass?

July 1, 2009 – 7:19 am

Feel like your paying too much for car insurance?  For younger or high risk drivers some feel that they are paying more towards their massachusetts car insurance that what their car is actually worth if it were to get totaled.  For example if a car was valued at $2000 and the driver was paying $170 [...]

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Allstate returns after deregulation

May 28, 2009 – 11:19 am

For decades, Massachusetts was one of the few states that still operated their insurance market under strict regulations. These regulations forced all providers to offer the same product, essentially eliminating all competition between companies. On April 1, 2008 the whole playing field changed when deregulation of policy prices was set in place. Since then, big [...]

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