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69. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subtitle 3 of Title 17 of the Revised Statutes or any other provision of law to the contrary, no insurer shall use recommendations relating to private passenger automobile insurance rates made by a rating organization or advisory organization that include expenses, other than loss adjustment expenses, or profit. A rating organization or advisory organization may: a. collect, compile and disseminate historical data for two or more insurers; b. develop, revise, disseminate and file:
(1)model year, vehicle series and symbol programs and factors for comprehensive and collision coverages;
(2)policy forms and endorsements;
(3)classifications, including, but not limited to, territorial definitions;
(4)policy writing rules and rating rules that include fac
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69. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subtitle 3 of Title 17 of the Revised Statutes or any other provision of law to the contrary, no insurer shall use recommendations relating to private passenger automobile insurance rates made by a rating organization or advisory organization that include expenses, other than loss adjustment expenses, or profit. A rating organization or advisory organization may: a. collect, compile and disseminate historical data for two or more insurers; b. develop, revise, disseminate and file: (1) model year, vehicle series and symbol programs and factors for comprehensive and collision coverages; (2) policy forms and endorsements; (3) classifications, including, but not limited to, territorial definitions; (4) policy writing rules and rating rules that include factors and relativities, such as increased limits factors, classification and territorial relativities, deductible discounts and relativities or similar factors; (5) manuals; and (6) prospective loss costs, including trend, loss development and all loss adjustment expenses; c. participate in any study of the auto insurance system in New Jersey; and d. furnish any other services approved or authorized by the commissioner. An insurer may use information provided by a rating organization or advisory organization pursuant to subsections a. through d. of this section. If an insurer files to alter, supplement or amend its rates or rating systems by incorporating, by reference, prospective loss costs filed by a rating organization or advisory organization, the commissioner may require the insurer to furnish its loss experience. No rating organization or advisory organization shall require or make an agreement to require the use of any data, policy forms, rule, prospective loss cost, manual, symbol or endorsement by any insurer. L.1990,c.8,s.69; amended 1994,c.188,s.1; 1995,c.261,s.1.