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IFM CEO: Regulation Slows Needed Rate Increases While Minnesota Homeowners Claims Costs Rise

Homeowners writers in Minnesota have a "very hard time" achieving rates needed when the costs of claims spike, leading to rate hikes continuing sometimes for years, according to Aaron Cocking, . . .

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