Cal. Code Regs. tit. 10 § 2645.2

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 45, November 8, 2024

Section 2645.2 - Findings

The Commissioner finds:

(a) Proposition 103 requires that all rates charged during the rollback period be reduced by 20% from their November 8, 1987, levels. Consumers are entitled to receive, and insurers are obligated to give, this reduction, except to the extent that it violates the insurers' constitutional rights.

(b) Insurers are entitled to rates during the rollback period that are not confiscatory. Rates are confiscatory if and only if all the rates charged by an entire group of insurance companies sharing a single ownership or control are, taken as a whole, confiscatory.

(c) To the extent that the rates specified by Proposition 103 for the rollback period are confiscatory, insurers are entitled to a rate above the level prescribed by the initiative, but no higher than necessary for the rates not to be confiscatory.

(d) Historical data shall be used in lieu of forecasts for the rollback period because actual historical data exist for many of the figures that are forecast in prior-approval ratemaking, making it possible to avoid the errors inherent in forecasting and resulting in greater accuracy.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 10, § 2645.2

1. New section filed 8-13-91 as an emergency; operative 8-13-91 (Register 92, No. 3). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL 12-11-91 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Repealed by operation of Government Code section 11346.1(g) (Register 92, No. 15).
3. New section refiled 2-14-92 as an emergency; operative 2-14-92 (Register 92, No. 15). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmittted to OAL 6-15-92 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. Repealed by operation of Government Code section 11346.1(g) and new section filed 3-15-95; operative 3-15-95. Submitted to OAL for printing only pursuant to Government Code section 11343(a)(1) (Register 95, No. 11).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 1861.01 and 1861.05, Insurance Code; 20th Century v. Garamendi, 8 Cal.4th 216 (1994). Reference: Sections 1861.01 and 1861.05, Insurance Code; Calfarm Insurance Company v. Deukmejian (1989) 48 Cal.3d 805.