Compulsory Automobile Insurance Rate Making in Massachusetts

For the past few years the subject of Compulsory Automobile Insurance has been one of paramount importance to the industry, to the legislatures in many of the states and to the motoring public. Annually the Massachusetts Insurance Department receives hundreds of requests from legislators throughout the Country to "please send (or wire) me collect all the data you have on compulsory insurance; I am filing a bill in my state to provide for compulsory automobile insurance". The reply, "The Department has 90 four-drawer files of data on the subject" usually elicits a more reasonable and specific request.