The Framingham-based Massachusetts
Association of Insurance Agents and The Arbella Insurance Group of Quincy have
filed a complaint against state Commissioner of Insurance Nonnie S. Burnes.
The suit claims new out-of-state
companies are getting an unfair advantage in competing with Massachusetts
insurers.
Arbella and the MAIA claim that
companies entering the Massachusetts market do not have to pay into a state
high-risk plan, as local companies are required to do, for two years. They also
say the commissioner requires some insurers, but not all, to insure certain
businesses, and that she allows insurance companies to avoid paying commissions
to agents or brokers, in violation of their statutory rights.
