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Safe, low-income drivers may get an insurance boost.

San Joaquin was added to a list Monday of eight counties targeted for expansion of the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program, which provides eligible low-income good drivers with state-required liability coverage for less than $400 a year. A town-hall meeting conducted by state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi will be held next Tuesday to gauge the community's interest in the program. With enough support, the low-cost insurance program could be rolled out in San Joaquin County... Source : accessmylibrary.com

Low-cost auto liability insurance sponsored by state now available

At least 165,000 drivers in San Diego County are uninsured, but some of them might qualify for new low-cost insurance sponsored by the state. Standing in front of a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Hillcrest yesterday, state Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi introduced a program that would allow the county's low-income motorists with good driving records to get state-required liability coverage at an affordable price, in some cases as little as $268 a year. The policies are available through the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program, which became available recently here and in five other counties. “The standard auto insurance

Low cost auto insurance in S.J. County gets the OK.

By summer, eligible San Joaquin County residents will be able to purchase the minimum auto insurance required by the state for less than $400 a year. State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi determined Tuesday that San Joaquin, Sacramento and Contra Costa counties met the... More : accessmylibrary.com

Sacramento, Calif., judge upholds new auto insurance regulations.

-In a rebuke to the insurance industry, a Sacramento Superior Court judge yesterday said insurers must stop using customers' ZIP codes as their primary criteria for setting auto insurance rates. The preliminary ruling by Judge Loren McMaster upholds new regulations ordered by Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, although the insurance industry will be given a chance to present oral arguments against the rules in a court hearing this afternoon. The Association of California Insurance Companies, American Insurance Association and Personal Insurance Federation of California had sued to block the regulations, complaining that the changes would arbitrarily push rates higher for some

Safeco car insurance gets on different track

With dozens of employees egging them on, two of Safeco's top executives raced plastic, remote-controlled jeeps around the company cafeteria at lunchtime yesterday. As Mike McGavick and Mike LaRocco manipulated their controllers, the jeeps twirled, whirled and a few times even crashed, in a festive, if not somewhat ironic, introduction of the company's new auto insurance program. Clearly, as one company official put it, this is not your father's Safeco. "This has been a difficult time for the company," said McGavick, the company's president and chief executive, after his jeep lost to LaRocco's. "It's important to have fun, to laugh a little. I