Mass. Auto Rate Hike Sparks Legal, Verbal Battle
NU Online News Service, Jan. 7, 3:44 p.m. EST?Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly's appeal of a state insurance department ruling, which raises the state's private passenger insurance rates by 2.5 percent, was attacked by an insurance trade group yesterday as "politics as usual."
In a complaint, filed at the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts, Mr. Reilly said the increase in the cost of auto insurance is "unwarranted" and that the decision last month will result in close to $100 million in additional costs for Massachusetts drivers.
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