SENATE, No. 590

By Mr. Hedlund (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 590) of Irving Murstein for legislation to lower the cost of home insurance by providing discounts on claim free years. Financial Services.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.


AN ACT lowering the cost of home insurance by providing discounts on claim free years.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 95 of Chapter 175 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 95B the following section:-

Section 95C. Home insurance companies licensed to operate in Massachusetts shall give home insurance policy owners a discount of 1% of the net premium cumulating for each claim free year, irrespective of the owners changing companies and irrespective of periodic years in which they make home insurance claims and receive settlements.