Car insurance brakes: AG pushes for 18 percent rate drop

Car insurance brakes: AG pushes for 18 percent rate drop (Boston Herald)
Battered by sky-high gasoline prices, Massachusetts motorists can at least look forward to an almost certain cut in their auto insurance rates next year. Attorney General Tom Reilly today plans to ask...

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State To Seek 18 Percent Cut In Car Insurance Rates (The Boston Channel)
Attorney General Thomas Reilly says he will ask for an 18 percent reduction in the state's auto insurance rates for next year.