It's quite simple. Massachusetts Insurance Department sets the rates for the whole state, AND sets the policy form. If you sell insurance in MA, you HAVE to write anyone who comes to you, AT THE STATE RATES. You can't pick and choose, and you can't set your own rates for really bad drivers. YOu have to do it EXACTLY the way the insurance department says.
AND, once you start writing auto in MA, you can't leave without paying billions in fees.
Geico, Progressive, State Farm, etc, figure they can't make money, and even if they could make money this year, they'd be trapped in MA Auto for a very, very long time. That's why there are only, what, seven auto insurance companies writing in MA. That's also why, if you call around to get other quotes, the rates are all the same, for the same coverages.
There's no competition in MA for auto insurance.
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