Auto Insurance reform

Renk: The big question I had after reading about this reduction was...

Renk: It would be a win-win situation for both parties politically and much more important us citizens of Michigan.

I will be interviewing Mackinac Center for Public Policy Director of Research Michael Van Beek at 11:06 tomorrow morning. Michael has been looking into the auto insurance reform issue and wrote the following: State lawmakers are poised to take a huge step towards reforming Michigan’s auto insurance laws...

Michigan has had no-fault insurance since 1973.  The question is, is no-fault auto insurance to blame for the high cost of our auto insurance in Michigan. According to the Mackinac Center for Public policy Michigan has: At present, nearly 20 percent of Michigan drivers are uninsured, many because they cannot afford the cost ... Read More ...

We have been discussing the reform — Michigan’s catastrophic insurance reform — for about a month now.  The reform in Senate Bills 248 and 249 is mainly focused on cost containment to our MCCA fund.