The sponsor of a bill, which has some insurance industry support, to severely restrict the Massachusetts insurance commissioner's regulation of auto insurance said he believes his measure will face stiff opposition in the legislature.
State Rep. Ron Mariano, D-Quincy, who recently introduced his legislation as the auto insurance reform bill H1542, has until July 31 when lawmakers are due to end their session to get the measure passed, but he said he "wouldn't have put the bill forward, if there wasn't still time to get it done."
Under the provisions of the bill the commissioner would lose the power to decide which criteria are used to determine driver rates, set the rates for each policy or limit price variation between customers.
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