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(1) Rates may not be excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory.
(2)
(a) Rates are not excessive if a reasonable degree of price competition exists at the consumer level with respect to the class of business to which they apply. In determining whether a reasonable degree of price competition exists, the commissioner shall consider:
(i) relevant tests of workable competition pertaining to:
(A) market structure;
(B) market performance; and
(C) market conduct; and
(ii) the practical opportunities available to consumers in the market to:
(A) acquire pricing and other consumer information; and
(B) compare and obtain insurance from competing insurers.
(b) The tests described in Subsection (2)(a) include:
(i) the size and number of insurers actively engaged in the market and class of business;
(ii) the market shares of insurers actively engaged in the market and changes in market shares;
(iii) the existence of rate differentials in that class of business;
(iv) ease of entry and latent competition of insurers capable of easy entry;
(v) availability of consumer information concerning the product and sales outlets or other sales mechanisms; and
(vi) efforts of insurers to provide consumer information.
(c) If reasonable price competition does not exist, rates are excessive if:
(i) rates are likely to produce a long-term profit that is unreasonably high in relation to the riskiness of the class of business; or
(ii) expenses are unreasonably high in relation to the services rendered.
(3) Rates are inadequate if:
(a) they are clearly insufficient, when combined with the investment income attributable to them, to sustain the projected losses and expenses in the class of business to which they apply; and
(b) the use of such rates has or, if continued, will have:
(i) the effect of substantially lessening competition; or
(ii) the tendency to create a monopoly in any market.
(4)
(a) A rate is unfairly discriminatory if price differentials fail to equitably reflect the differences in expected losses and expenses after allowing for practical limitations.
(b) A rate is not unfairly discriminatory if it is averaged broadly among persons insured under a: