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The truth about insurance reform? It’s a matter of which ad you watch.
Auto insurance isn’t a front-burner issue right now for most consumers, but two warring industry groups are doing their best to whip up a public frenzy.
The two groups, operating with innocuous-sounding names that give no hint of the companies bankrolling them, are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV and radio ads that twist the facts to their own advantage.
The ads, which will only intensify if a bill ever emerges from the Legislature’s Financial Services Committee, appear to be aimed more at state lawmakers than the driving public. Lawmakers, even within that committee, are split on the need for change, while drivers, with auto insurance rates falling and expected to keep falling next year, are not clamoring for it either.
“This is not being driven by clients screaming about their rates,” said Henry Risman, president of Risman Insurance Agency in Medford and Byette Insurance Agency in Tewksbury. “There’s no demand for reform.”
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