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- <text id=89TT1264>
- <title>
- May 15, 1989: Business Notes:Insurance
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 15, 1989 Waiting For Washington
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- INSURANCE
- A Revolt Rolls On
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- <p> When California residents voted to brake the state's
- runaway car-insurance rates last November, alarmed insurers sped
- into court to overturn the referendum. But last week the
- California Supreme Court upheld most of the measure, thus
- increasing the prospect that a revolt against high auto premiums
- could soon spread to other states. In a unanimous decision, the
- seven justices affirmed the major provisions of Proposition 103,
- which slashes car premiums and other types of property and
- casualty rates 20% below the level of November 1987. Good
- drivers will get another 20% off.
- </p>
- <p> While the ruling could force firms to give California
- customers up to $4 billion in rebates and rate cuts, few checks
- will go out soon. The reason: the court held that insurers may
- receive exemptions from the rollbacks if they can prove that the
- new rates would be too low to assure a "fair and reasonable"
- profit.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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