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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies.

Cummins, J. David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Property insurance--Deregulation--United States--Case studies.

Property insurance.

Liability insurance--Deregulation--United States--Case studies.

Liability insurance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815798415

0815798415

OCLC:

923614720