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Excerpt from Report of the Attorney General for the Year Ending June 30, 1984
In accordance with the provisions of section 1 1 of chapter 12 and of section 32 of chapter 30 of the General Laws, I hereby submit the Annual Report of the Department of the Attorney General for fiscal year 1984. This is the tenth report that I have filed as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth and it chronicles the efforts and accomplishments of a dedicated staff over the past fiscal year. This introduction does more than that, however, because if offers an appropriate Opportunity to look at the numerous institutional changes that have been made in the functioning and operation of this Department during the past ten years. Some of these changes are permanent and the result of legislative enactments; some will endure only because they have been established and maintained for nearly a decade.
As this is first and foremost a report to the General Court, I begin with those institutional changes mandated by the Legislature and more specifically with those providing increased protection to the public. Perhaps the most signifi cant of those changes involve representation of the public interest in rate-making proceedings. In 1976, realizing that the consumers of this state had Virtually no representation at insurance and utility rate-setting hearings, the Legislature authorized this office to intervene in those proceedings on behalf of any group of consumers. Pursuant to that statutory authorization, I created separate utilities and insurance divisions within the Public Protection Bureau. The underlying wisdom of the legislation was borne out in last year's results. Dur ing the past fiscal year the intervention of the Insurance Division alone, resulted in a total savings of $1 16, to the consumers of this state. Focusing even more narrowly on our intervention in the automobile insurance rate setting hearing, the Commissioner of Insurance set a rate of less than that requested by the insurance industry. That decision resulted in a savings of about for each private passenger car in the state. Similarly, as the ensuing report demonstrates, the savings realized for Massachusetts consumers by the Utilities Division in the past fiscal year equaled This is money often desperately needed by the elderly and the ill who cannot afford to pay exorbitant fees for gas and electricity.
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