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BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesAUTO INSURANCEHey, Where's My Refund
California motorists have been looking forward to
auto-insurance refunds since November, when voters passed an
initiative calling for a 20% cut in premiums for property and
casualty coverage. But their anticipation turned to anger last
week, when State Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie declared
that most Californians are "not going to get lower auto-insurance
rates" as a result of the initiative.
The hitch is a May decision by the state supreme court, which
upheld the initiative but ruled that insurance companies are
entitled to "a fair and reasonable" profit. Most of the state's
insurance firms maintained that they should be exempted on those
grounds. After reviewing their profit statements, Gillespie said
she found only 13 companies profitable enough to warrant rate
rollbacks. She announced hearings to examine the exemption claims
of 34 more firms, but further outraged critics by declaring that
evaluations of more than 200 other companies could take as long as
ten years to complete.