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Whether crafting a letter to your legislator, speaking at a committee meeting, or communicating with the media, it is important to reduce your ideas to three to five concise, persuasive points. Feel free to use any or all of the following talking points to get across your views on the issue.

Talking Points for Automotive Insurance Reform

* Insurance companies already have too much control over insurance reform.

* We need to close the loophole that allows insurance companies to shift policyholders from rate-regulated companies to non-rate-regulated companies.

* We need 100% rate regulation of all companies with a prior approval system for the Insurance Commissioner to approve all rates before they are passed along to consumers.

* We need to strengthen Texas' existing prompt payment of claims provisions to more quickly get the process underway and enhance penalties against companies for failing to comply with prompt payment of claims laws.

* We must prohibit insurers from the discriminatory practive of canceling, rejecting, or renewing policies and raising rates on renewal policies based solely on a person's credit score.


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