Auto Insurance Reform Comes Under Question

According to Robert P. Spellane, Rep. 13th Worcester District of Boston, taxpayers are being fed a line when it comes to auto insurance reform in the state of Massachusetts. Spellane, who also happens to be the Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Financial Services, claims that the Boston Globe and the State Attorney General are “playing politics with auto insurance reform” and are not actually telling taxpayers the truth about what is going on.

Spellane recently wrote a letter to the Boston Globe regarding the fact that there was an editorial in the paper on December 2nd that said that auto insurance savings were not what was promised the people of Massachusetts. He says that the claims that were made in that editorial are misleading and thus they are playing politics with what the facts really are.

Spellane points out that at no time has there been any “credible evidence” that would point to an 11% decrease in auto insurance rates if the state’s auto insurance commission had continued setting the rates for the state. He says that the Globe had a responsibility to tell their readers that the Attorney General’s rate recommendations were always considered much higher than the final rate that was approved by the Insurance Commissioner.

He goes on to say that the fact that the AG keeps making recommendations that cannot be passed, and that he never challenged the auto insurance rates that were passed, should have been telling enough. He says that the auto insurance rates that will actually be issued come next April will be much lower than originally speculated, but they will be fair rates.



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