
Heartland Policy Studies are original research produced for The Heartland Institute, edited by its staff, and reviewed by its Board of Policy Advisors.
This Property & Casualty Insurance Report Card assigns grades to the 50 states of the United States based on the effectiveness of their property and casualty insurance regulation. Idaho, Illinois, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin get "A" grades, while California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, and North Carolina get "F" grades.
We rated states using nine variables. On each variable we established a modal score of zero: States received a score of "zero" on each variable unless they do something exceptionally "good" or "bad" relative to other states.
The states with freer markets, on balance, provide more consumer choice, more predictable rates, and insurance premiums that better reflect actual risk. The states with more restricted markets provide none of these things.