"Politics and Public Automobile Insurance in BC 1970-2010." BC Studies, Summer 2013.
Posted on
Automobile insurance encompasses many important aspects of living in a modern society. These include legal practices, medical services, customer relationships, community involvement, and management theory. This review focuses on the evolving political and financial relationship between the publicly owned Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) and provincial governments of various political philosophies over the four decades of its existence and how ICBC was often shaped by, and sometimes itself influenced, the politics of British Columbia.