Detroit car insurance remains the highest in the state, country

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posting 10% of his $100,000 bond. >> Michigan's car insurance rates are still some of the highest in the nation despite efforts by the state to lower them. >> Local nonprofit Outlier Media has been reporting on the impact of those high costs. Joining us now is one of outliers reporters Kobe Levin and Melissa Love, a Detroit resident interviewed in The Outlier Story. Thank you both for joining us. >> Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. >> So Kobe, tell me what led to this investigation looking into this. We've known Michigan and Detroit in particular to have these very high rates for some time. Why did you guys really want to dig into this? >> So the story really starts in 2019. And lawmakers went ahead and changed our insurance laws. Folks all over the state had been raising concerns about high prices. And one of the lines that we heard most frequently in Detroit is well, these reforms are going to make things more affordable. They're going to bring down prices. They're going to end the practice that a lot of folks called modern day redlining where Detroiters are paying these very high rates compared to the rest of the state and even the surrounding counties. And so we wanted to ask did that happen? >> Did it come true? And unfortunately the evidence is pretty clear Detroiters are still paying these disparate fortunately high rates And it's a major factor in people's basic life decisions in the city. >> Yeah, And that brings us to Melissa. How has this impacted your life and your choices living in Detroit? >> You know, impact on my life. I have the walk more take side streets just just because of no insurance. So it takes me I have to take a longer route than normal because I don't want to get caught in the misfire. >> Yeah. >> Without insurance? Yeah. Coby you mentioned the rates haven't been lowered all that much. I know at the time Governor Whitmer said this wasn't perfect but that it should lower rates for several years for pretty much all Michigan. >> So has it just been a slight lowering? What is the data showing you? >> Right. So we did see prices ticked down by some accounts. Folks are saying that now they do seem to be back up. But the important thing to note is that price disparity the you know what what a lot of the advocates and folks like Melissa told us is really unfair pricing where Detroiters are paying much, much more just because of where they live in the city. Not because of their driving record, not because of anything they can control. That disparity the inequitable pricing that we see in the city has not changed at all as far as we can tell. >> Yeah. Growing the state's population and the city's population specifically has been a huge goal. We've heard many leaders from Mayor Duggan to Governor Whitmer talk about that quite a bit. Based on your reporting and all of the people you have interviewed for this, how do you think this might play a role in those efforts to get people to move back or move to the city or state? >> Well, it's a big deal. We talked to plenty of folks who said they had moved to one side or the other of Eight mile and saw their bill change drastically. We actually were able to sit in a in a Zoom room kind of like this one with some Detroiters as they worked with an insurance agent who had agreed to go against his his contract and show them quotes if they just moved out of the city. Right. Same person, same driving record. Just a new zip code. And we watched their jaws drop as their prices went way down. And you know, people have a sense that this is the case in Detroit. But when you see those numbers on the page and you're talking about paying, you know, $1,000 more for six months or more when you're just moving a few miles away, it's just it's a hard pill to swallow And it really does matter in the decisions that people make about where they live and how they shift their lives. >> Yeah. So there's been a lot of criticism for the no fault reforms but there's a lot of awareness that this remains a big issue. Do you have any sense as to whether there's hope for whether there are enough efforts to kind of turn this around in the foreseeable future? >> You know, I wish that I could say as a Detroiter who pays extremely high insurance rates that we had seen kind of immediate reform proposals. We did hear from Congresswoman Rashida Talib who has talked about wanting to prohibit some location based pricing at the federal level. But it is unclear when and if that can make a difference for rate payers here in Detroit. >> Yeah, a policy change at the federal level we know not a simple or fast process generally. Well Coby thank you so much for

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