GLENDALE -- Although insurers won't publicly disclose their pricing strategies for 2000, it does seem like most carriers are intent on raising prices. That's the word after Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, in an unexpectedly positive move for carrier solvency, authorized an average pure premium rate increase of 18.4 percent for 2000.Nobody would say on the record how large their price increases would be, but off the record it appears as though most California insurers will take increases
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