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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828942603321

Titolo

Deregulating property-liability insurance : restoring competition and increasing market efficiency / / J. David Cummins, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, c2002

ISBN

0-8157-9841-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (419 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CumminsJ. David

Disciplina

368.1

Soggetti

Property insurance - Deregulation - United States

Liability insurance - Deregulation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Contents; 1 Property- Liability Insurance Price Deregulation: The Last Bastion?; 2 Automobile Insurance Regulation: The Massachusetts Experience; 3 Private Passenger Auto Insurance in New Jersey: A Three- Decade Advertisement for Reform; 4 Auto Insurance Reform: Salvation in South Carolina; 5 Regulation of Automobile Insurance in California; 6 Insurance Price Deregulation: The Illinois Experience; 7 Effects of Prior Approval Rate Regulation of Auto Insurance; 8 Form Regulation in Commercial Insurance; 9 Insurance Regulation in Other Industrial Countries; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publication Over the past two decades, the United States has successfully deregulated prices and restrictions on most previously-regulated industries, including airlines, trucking, railroads, telecommunications, and banking. Only a few industries remain regulated, the largest being the property-liability insurance business. In light of recent sweeping financial modernization legislation in other sectors of the insurance industry, this timely volume examines the basis for continued regulation of rates and forms of the U.S. property