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Wednesday, January 18, 1978
University Daily Kansar
Senator wants Congress to check insurance rates
WASHINGTON (AP) - Howard Metzenbaum, DOhio, chairman of a Senate panel investigating auto insurance, wants Congress to consider banning rate discrimination based on residence, age or race over five years, saying the states have not done the job.
"In the main, the states have not provided very effective regulation of the insurance."
He said his Senate Judiciary subcommittee's investigation already had turned up insurance company guidance that covered coverage to divorcees, single persons, cooks, longshoremen, musicians, professional athletes and military per-
YOUNG PEOPLE, especially males, pay higher rates even though a study by the National Association of Insurance Companions suggests that firefighters under 25 have never filed a claim.
Industry representatives were scheduled to testify today.
In testimony yesterday, witnesses described sharp increases in the cost of their coverage based solely on where they live. their marital status or age.
Joseph Ciampa, East Boston, said that in five years of driving he never had an accident or traffic violation. Yet before reforms were instituted in Massachusetts, said Ciampa, a 21-year-old unmarried man, insurance rate went from $1,400 to $2,800.
IN QUESTIONING the increase, Campa said he learned it was based solely on his age and the community he lived in, not on his driving record or type of car.
Clampa said he decided to buy less comprehensive coverage costing only $900 and still received a $150 rebate when demands for insurance reform resulted in
With the new insurance law in his state, Champa said his 1977 car insurance bill was "a major disappointment."
*People who are good drivers should not have to suffer because of how old they are or other factors.*
Irm Carroll, Raleigh, N.C., said she was told her insurance premium would go up 15% in the wake of the crash.
SHE SAID she decided to switch insurance companies after her husband's death. She was originally quoted a rate of 80 cents per trip to $39 after she said she was widowed.
She said she told the agent, "A minute ago I was a competent driver, and now because I am a widow I have been declared a maniac behind the wheel."
In Massachusetts, car insurance premiums can no longer be based on age, sex or marital status. In North Carolina, insurance companies cannot cancel auto insurance policies because customers live in a county where drivers are divorced or are under age 25 or over 65.
Metzenbaum said Massachusetts and North Carolina now were among the few exceptions to the rule of ineffective state regulation.
Other witnesses told of similar industry practices on fire and mortgage insurance coverage in which whole neighborhoods became high risk areas regardless of the quality of the housing or which families were seeking coverage.
Extradition papers for the return of two Denver men charged with first-degree murder in Lawrence are on the way to the judge in Douglas County official said last night.
Men charged with murder may be extradited
Harry Warren, Douglas County assistant attorney, said the two men, Charles E. Moore, Jr., 22, and Lee E. Harris, 24, were charged with the murder of 30-year-old Samuel C. Norwood, manager of the F. W. Woolorth store in Lawrence.
Norwood's body was found on the bank of the Kansas River as a Lawrence police officer off-duty.
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also of Denver, is being held in the Douglas
 county jail as a material witness in the
prosecution.
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Avery has been charged with grand auto theft. The car, seen in the Lawrence area about the time of the murder, was stolen from the Denver area.
After the Colorado governor receives the papers, a governor's warrant for arrest will be issued.
If the defendants apply for a hearing, Colorado would review the extradition papers to see if they are in proper order, he said.
shot four times in the head and his hands were behind his back.
"The whole procedure could take a couple of months," Warren said.
A Feb. 1 date has been set for her hearing.
A 19-year-old woman, Terry E. Avery,
THE DEFENDANTS could either submit to the warrant and be returned to Lawrence or not.
Governor Robert F. Bennett.
will speak and answer questions.
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