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In the Detroit Free Press, Kathleen Gray reports that 12 Michigan auto insurance companies have agreed to freeze their rates for a year. However, 96 other insurers have not agreed to the rate freeze as of the March 1st deadline. Governor Jennifer Granholm requested that insurers freeze their auto insurance premiums for a year while the state legislature works on auto insurance reform. 

The insurance companies that have agreed to freeze their auto insurance rates are:

• American Bankers’ Insurance Company of Florida
• American International South Insurance Company
• American Reliable Insurance
• Wolverine Mutual Insurance Company
• Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company
• Great Lakes Casualty Insurance Company
• Electric Insurance Company
• Essentia Insurance Company
• Meritplan Insurance Company
• IDS Property Casualty Insurance Company
• Liberty Mutual Property Insurance Company
• Merchants Mutual Insurance Company

According to the Insurance Journal, Mich. Governor Jennifer Granholm is asking for a year-long freeze in auto insurance rates. Michigan auto insurance is some of the most expensive in the country, and state legislators want the time to figure out reforms.

The Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation will have the ability to penalize any auto insurance companies that refuse to refrain from increasing premiums during the next 12 months, the Democrat says.

Michigan residents have been hard hit by this recession, especially those in the Detroit auto industry. This request will offer them a measure of relief.