Navigating the New Auto Insurance System
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- Amica Mutual Insurance
- Electric Insurance
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance
- United Service Automobile Association
- American Automobile Insurance
- Arbella Mutual Insurance
- Citizens Insurance
- Commerce Insurance
- Encompass Insurance
- Farm Family Casualty Insurance
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Massachusetts Homeland Insurance
- Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance
- NGM Insurance
- Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance
- Plymouth Rock Assurance
- Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance
- Safety Property & Casualty Insurance
- Travelers of Massachusetts
Largest US insurer joins market
In a move that signals the state's newly deregulated auto insurance system is making the market more competitive, American International Group Inc. , the nation's largest insurance company, will soon start selling auto policies in Massachusetts. (7/12/08)
Insurance commissioner sued
One of the state's largest auto insurance companies and the insurance agent trade association yesterday filed a lawsuit against Nonnie S. Burnes, the insurance commissioner, saying that new rules she put in place last month give newcomers to the Massachusetts auto market an unfair advantage.
Insurer's sales tactics questioned
Less than a week after Progressive Insurance started selling auto policies online in Massachusetts, independent agents are criticizing its sales tactics and the attorney general is looking at the company's website.
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Save on your auto insurance
Premiums are expected to decline as Massachusetts moves to a more competitive system. Here are some tips to help you save even more.
Recent coverage
- Consumers should shop to save (Boston Globe, 3/9/08)
- Some websites offer help and hidden agendas (Boston Globe, 3/9/08)
- Motorists' records may be underrated (Boston Globe, 2/28/08)
- Browsing for a better auto insurance deal (Boston Globe, 2/17/08)
- Progressive joins Mass. insurance market (Boston Globe, 2/26/08)
- Auto insurers in Mass. can't use credit history (Boston Globe, 10/6/07)
- Cut in auto rates to average 7.7% (Boston Globe, 11/20/07)
- Mass. 4th most expensive (Boston Globe, 9/25/07)
- As Mass. auto insurance rules change, fate of group discounts is uncertain (Boston Globe, 9/14/07)
- Critics: Don't let insurers use credit scores (Boston Globe, 9/21/07)
- N.J. car rate specialist backs social factors (Boston Globe, 8/26/07)
- New Jersey may offer drivers a glimpse of the road ahead (Boston Globe, 8/26/07)