California Orders Allstate to Cut Home Insurance Rates 28.5%
“In today’s sputtering economic environment, people need all the help they can get just to pay the bills,” Poizner said in a statement.
Allstate spokesman Peter DeMarco, in a statement, said the company was “disappointed” in the order but planned to comply.
Northbrook, Illinois-based Allstate had initially filed for a 9.3 percent increase in homeowners insurance rates, according to Poizner’s statement.
He ordered the rate reduction after an administrative law judge recommended the cut. Consumers will save an average of $242 per policy on an annual basis, according to the statement.
The rate order follows one earlier this year, forcing Allstate to cut its auto policy rates in California by 15.9 percent.
Allstate is the largest publicly traded U.S. insurer of homes and autos.
(Reporting by Lilla Zuill, editing by Richard Chang) (lilla.zuill@reuters.com;+1 646 223 6281))
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