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Insurance ‘rip off’claimfc
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Safe drivers
are being “ripped off’ by insurance
companies that raise rates based on
age, sex and neighborhoods, a Los
Angeles official told Congress Tues
day.
Kenneth Hahn, a Los Angeles
County supervisor and one more
than a dozen witnesses testifying
about discrimination by insurance
companies charged:
“There has been an insurance
curtain drawn in American to pre
vent average auto policy holders,
who are good drivers, from under
standing why they are paying such
high rates. The fact is they are being
ripped off by the biggest companies
in America.”
Hahn joined North Carolina’s in
surance commissioner, John Ran
dolph Ingram, and Sen. Howard
Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, presiding at
the Senate judiciary subcommittee
hearing, in suggesting Congress re
peal the insurance industry’s
exemption from federal antitrust
laws.
A panel of consumers and busi
nessmen testified they have had
sharp increases for auto, home own
er’s and property insurance based
on “redlining,” the industry practice
of designating certain neighbor
hoods as high risk areas.
Hahn, who charged the insurance
companies have “a powerful, phan
tom lobby” in state legislatures, said
a resident of the predominantly
black Watts area of Los Angeles
pays $960 a year for the same car
insurance that costs $385 in San
Diego and $188 in Milwaukee.
The city and county of Los
Angeles - designated as high risk
areas - have sued big insurance
companies because the facts show
their drivers are just as safe as
others in the state, Hahn said.
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brainwashed people in Los k
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believe they should pay on
insurance rates for being
hazardous drivers, he said,
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the auto insurance industryti
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