The state Supreme Court opens its new session tomorrow. The first day includes a case where doctors, lawyers, and policyholders are trying to force the insurance industry to reveal more about how it sets rates.
The Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association was created by an act of the Legislature, but it’s run by insurance companies. It’s funded through a fee on people who buy auto insurance. A group of doctors, hospitals, trial lawyers, and policyholders has been trying for years to pry more information out of the MCCA. It says the information would be useful to policyholders, and the victims of catastrophic accidents whose care is financed by the fund, which is now over 18 (b) billion dollars.
The insurance industry says the MCCA is private, and exempt from Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act.