IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cpp/issued/v19y1993i3p298-310.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Automobile Insurance in Ontario: Public Policy and Private Interests

Author

Listed:
  • Rose Anne Devlin

Abstract

Recently the government of Ontario introduced a partial no-fault system for automobile insurance. One stated objective of this policy was to promote the public interest. Interestingly, the insurance industry was generally supportive of this decision. Is it possible that both society in general and the industry can benefit from no-fault automobile insurance? This paper examines the decision to implement no-fault automobile insurance in Ontario from the industry's perspective and from an overall welfare perspective. The paper argues that the industry was induced to lobby for no-fault automobile insurance provisions as a result of the government's prior regulation of insurance premiums. It was rational for the industry to want "cost restraints" in the presence of these "revenue" restrictions. In general, the available evidence suggests that the no-fault policy will not be welfare enhancing.

Suggested Citation

  • Rose Anne Devlin, 1993. "Automobile Insurance in Ontario: Public Policy and Private Interests," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 19(3), pages 298-310, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:19:y:1993:i:3:p:298-310
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0317-0861%28199309%2919%3A3%3C298%3AAIIOPP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
    Download Restriction: only available to JSTOR subscribers
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dionne, Georges & Vanasse, Charles, 1997. "Une évaluation empirique de la nouvelle tarification de l’assurance automobile (1992) au Québec," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 73(1), pages 47-80, mars-juin.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:19:y:1993:i:3:p:298-310. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Iver Chong (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.utpjournals.press/loi/cpp .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.