Client Alert
| September 10, 2009
Proposed California Ballot Initiative to Prohibit Installment Fees and Broker Fees
Consumer activists Harvey Rosenfield and Douglas Heller have asked California Secretary of State Jerry Brown to put to California voters a ballot initiative, called the "Stop Insurance Overcharges Act," that would prohibit and limit certain insurance fees, including installment fees (i.e., fees charged by insurers to those customers who choose to pay their premiums in installments over time, rather than at policy inception) and broker fees.
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