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Insurers: Litigation Keeps Pressuring Commercial Auto Rates, Reserves, Underwriting

Commercial automobile insurers in the thick of a litigious environment are strengthening reserves and hiking rates even when they limit, or avoid, classes, according to company executives who . . .

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