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While Californians are increasingly squeezed out by electricity costs, they are always the best offer in the country, auto insurance, because the state a single law, a new study by a consumer group shows .

Prices for auto insurance in California 4 percent fell between 1989 and 1998, jumping an average of 38.9 per cent in Germany, according to the survey published Wednesday by Consumer Federation of America.

Insurance premiums have for the most in Nebraska (plus 81.7 percent from 1989 to 1998), South Dakota (75.2 percent), WV (65.8 percent), Kentucky (64 , 3 percent) and Arkansas (61.5 percent), the survey shows. They led to an increase in the last New Hampshire (plus 2 percent), Pennsylvania (11.7 percent), Massachusetts (12 percent), Maine (13.2 percent) and New Jersey (15.8 percent).

Consumers in Germany spend an annual average of over $ 700 per vehicle and $ 1500 per household, for a total of $ 100 billion in national average, according-to-Consumer Federation.

California has been the only state which recorded a decrease. At a press conference, Ralph Nader and others in favour of consumers credited Proposition 103, passed by state voters during the years 1988, the settlement strengthens insurance.

“California,” said Robert Hunter, director of the Consumer Federation of insurance, ready for study. He made small Proposition 103 increases, fewer uninsured drivers and insurance companies in the state - along with the bulk of profits for companies.

National Insurance Institute of regulatory authorities across the country “should California guidance on how to deal effectively with insurance, said Hunter, a former insurance commissioner of Texas.

Proposition 103, among other things, required insurance companies to open their books to justify increases, the pilot had a clean discs 20 percent discount, allows banks to sell auto insurance for the Advancement of competition and the need to Commissioner of State on consumers with rate comparisons.

A formal proposal of 103 Assekuranz denounced as “price fixing” due instead of lower rates in California’s on the highway improves safety belt and a greater obligation to make a tough fight against fraud ” insurance and legal changes make it difficult and costly to file appeals of accidents on highways.

Insurance premiums across the country have since 1998, after several years increases for the same reasons, David Snyder, Assistant General Counsel of the American Insurance Association, said in a telephone interview.

Hunter said stand-by-State figures were not available for years subsequent to 1998.

Nader, has led the campaign for Proposition 103, said insurance companies’ resistance against similar legislation for other countries, is part of a new push by U.S. industry deregulation, promoted by business-friendly Bush administration.

“Deregulation spells death, disease and injuries could be prevented,” he told reporters, citing death, the government has a relationship with Ford Explorer with Firestone tires. Nader said weakened regulatory powers Agency of the road was a factor blocking.

Consumer Federation and other groups including the Consumers’ Union, the Center for Economic Justice and the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, are asking the public insurance commissioners to adopt a California law style.

Spokesman of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners had no direct comment on the reinvestigation.