“Heading into this legislative session, we made it a priority to work with the General Assembly to give our office more authority over car insurance rate filings that impact hardworking Georgia families,” Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King said in a release. (Credit: Jonh Disney) “Heading into this legislative session, we made it a priority to work with the General Assembly to give our office more authority over car insurance rate filings that impact hardworking Georgia families,” Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King said in a release. (Credit: John Disney)

The Georgia legislature passed a bill that would give the state’s insurance commissioner more oversight on personal auto insurance rates for policies that offer more than the mandatory minimum limits, according to the state’s Office of the Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire.

Under Georgia’s current rate-filing system, the insurance commissioner only has the authority to approve or disapprove filings for minimum-limit policies, whiles all other filings go into effect immediately through a “file and use” provision. The bill that passed the state legislature maintains the commissioner’s authority over mandatory minimum-limit filings, while giving the commissioner 60 days to review all other filings.

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