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Article: Lawyers led assault on no-fault
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1994
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Powerful forces drove the 1988 reform of Massachusetts' auto
insurance system: a 26 percent rise in premiums in two years.
But, with 1994 premiums rising only 2.9 percent, another force
played an even bigger role in Tuesday's 24-11 Senate vote to repeal
the state's no-fault insurance law: Lawyers.
"We have done everything we can to spread the word from cities and
towns right on up to Beacon Hill," said Anthony Tarricone, president
of the Massachusetts Association of Trial Attorneys.
Association members mounted a four-year lobbying campaign to roll
back the 23-year-old no-fault system.
"The message got through," Tarricone said: "No fault is a failed
experiment."
Under current law, a driver ...