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Byline: Bruce Mohl Jul. 17--Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes yesterday said she plans to give the 4 million drivers in Massachusetts a taste of auto insurance competition next year, letting [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jul. 15--Boston milk prices soared to their highest level ever this month as tightening national and world markets for dairy products pushed up the cost of cheese, [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jul. 12--For the past 30 years, state insurance commissioners in Massachusetts have held a hearing each spring on whether automobile insurers should be allowed to set their [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jul. 8--David Mattera's 1998 Mercury Mystique sits crumpled outside his Ipswich home, the car's insured value still unclear nearly nine months after the accident that left it [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jul. 4--Today's drawing for the Massachusetts State Lottery's Star Spangled Sweepstakes is likely to be bittersweet, except for the game's winners. Lottery officials plan to hand out [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jun. 29--State Treasurer Timothy Cahill said yesterday that the lottery's $20 sweepstakes game is unlikely to break even, one of the rare instances when a game failed [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jun. 28--Some of the best seats for Beyonce Knowles's 37-city summer tour, including an Aug. 12 Boston show, are being auctioned on a website that caters to [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jun. 25--Is the paper ticket headed for extinction? Most airlines have done away with paper tickets, and now a Cleveland company called Flash Seats is pushing the [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jun. 21--The Massachusetts Lottery, already struggling to reach this year's revenue targets, is having trouble selling tickets for its new $20 sweepstakes. With nine days left before [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jun. 10--Turn off all the lights in your house at night and wander around. You'll be amazed at how many devices continue to glow. Utility executives call [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jun. 3--Ticket scalping is now legal in the state of New York. Can Massachusetts be far behind? Late last week, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer signed legislation [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl May 27--The move to cap ticket fees in Massachusetts is losing steam, which is a shame, says Eric Grossman of Waltham. He recently went on the Ticketmaster [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl May 20--Car keys have come a long way, and so have their prices. The simple metal key that could be copied at a hardware store is quickly [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl May 19--Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes yesterday signaled she is seriously considering introducing some form of competitive rate-setting to the Massachusetts auto insurance system. At a hearing [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl May 13--Massachusetts home insurance companies are asking many of their customers to either absorb more risk or spend thousands of dollars storm proofing their homes. Close to [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl May 11--Governor Deval Patrick yesterday filed legislation for a $3.6 million bailout of the state's 179 dairy farmers, who are trying to recover from the effects of [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl May 10--Dorchester consumer activist Colman Herman's streak of courtroom victories appeared to come to a halt yesterday as a Supreme Judicial Court justice indicated there was no [...]

Byline: Bruce A. Mohl May 6--Is the Massachusetts State Lottery played out? Over the last decade, the lottery's fortunes have grown. Gross revenue increased at an average annual rate of [...]

Byline: Bruce A. Mohl May 5--A Weymouth ticket reseller yesterday won a reprieve from having to identify its source of Red Sox game seats after a single justice of the [...]

Byline: Bruce A. Mohl May 3--A Quincy District Court judge yesterday threatened a Weymouth ticket reseller with financial sanctions if it refuses to publicly identify one of its key suppliers [...]

Byline: Bruce A. Mohl Apr. 29--Paula Aschettino and a growing army of homeowners have watched as home insurers have left Cape Cod and remaining companies insist they must raise rates [...]

Byline: Bruce A. Mohl Apr. 26--A series of lawsuits filed by Ticketmaster LLC is shedding light on one of the biggest mysteries surrounding ticket resellers: Where do they get their [...]

Byline: Bruce A. Mohl Apr. 22--Retail promotions offering customers full refunds on their purchases if the Boston Red Sox win the World Series or one of their pitchers hurls a [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 21--The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center is getting a makeover. After years of uncertainty about whether Boston needed a second convention center, the Massachusetts [...]

Byline: Bruce A. Mohl Apr. 19--A state hearing officer yesterday showed little sympathy for a ticket broker's claim that legal technicalities bar a consumer's complaint about tickets being resold illegally [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 15--Is comparison shopping worth the time? The Internet has made it quicker and easier to compare products and prices, but for some items, comparison shopping takes [...]

Byline: Bruce A. Mohl and John R. Elleme Apr. 13--Boston Red Sox officials are getting tough with season ticket holders caught reselling their tickets for a profit. Ron Bumgarner, Red [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 11--Ticket resellers on the streets around Fenway Park and at a Weymouth ticket agency had a tough day yesterday. Boston Police deployed dozens of uniformed and [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 10--The Massachusetts State Lottery revs up a new Keno game this week that gives gamblers the chance to place $1 bets on animated stock-car races, complete [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 8--No one has paid much attention to the state's antiscalping law for years. Not the police. Not state regulators. Not the attorney general's office. Not ticket [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 7--Bank of America Corp. is imposing a monthly minimum finance charge of $1.50 on former MBNA credit card customers who carry balances unless they opt out [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 6--Time is running out on the best garage parking deal in Boston. City officials yesterday said they plan to raise the parking rates at the Winthrop [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 5--The massive recall of tainted pet food in the United States is sparking a broader debate about the quality of the food Americans are feeding their [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Apr. 4--Monsanto Corp. yesterday asked two federal regulatory agencies to investigate what it alleges are false and misleading advertising claims made by many dairies, including some of [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Mar. 27--A study group appointed by Governor Deval Patrick is recommending few major changes in the state's auto insurance system, although the seven-member panel says the state's [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Mar. 20--Cable television companies are embracing rabbit ears. Cable Television Laboratories, a Colorado research group supported by the nation's cable companies, says it is developing the specifications [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Mar. 4--IT'S THE EXTRAS THAT DEFINE TAX-PREP SOFTWARE: The two most popular tax preparation software packages are a lot like Coke and Pepsi, but this year they've [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Mar. 3--Uncle Sam is giving away millions of dollars on this year's tax returns, but nearly a third of early filers aren't claiming their money. Internal Revenue [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Mar. 2--Movie theater popcorn is pricey, but what are you getting for your money? Theaters pop their popcorn and top it off differently. Most area theaters contacted [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Mar. 2--Buying a small popcorn and a soda at a movie theater is becoming a big investment. At the 13-screen theater owned by Regal Entertainment Group in [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Mar. 1--For the third time in 20 months, Bank of America Corp. has increased the fees it charges customers who overdraw accounts or bounce checks. The fee [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Feb. 25--Rooftop antennas are back in vogue. Many homeowners are trading up to expensive television sets and hooking them up to old-fashioned antennas that can pull in [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Feb. 13--Governor Deval L. Patrick yesterday appointed a Superior Court judge with no professional background in insurance as the state's top insurance regulator. Nonnie S. Burnes, 64, [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Feb. 11--Most of us don't know a kilowatt hour from a New York minute, but the high price of electricity is accelerating the learning curve. Electricity prices [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Feb. 8--The New England Patriots yesterday accused ticket reseller StubHub Inc. of reconstructing law and logic to make the 'farfetched claim' that the team is trying to [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Feb. 5--Genalytics is trying to take the junk out of junk mail. Using patented software capable of analyzing more than 500 variables per household, the Andover company [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Feb. 4--Jackie Maxwell of Whitman feels like the rope in a tug of war between banks and retailers over the cost of debit card transactions. Sovereign Bank [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Feb. 3--A Weymouth ticket reseller yesterday was ordered to identify who supplied it with tickets to seven Boston Red Sox games in 2005 and how much it [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Feb. 1--A company specializing in reselling Red Sox tickets told a Quincy District Court judge yesterday that it complied with the state's antiscalping law when it offered [...]

Byline: Bruce Mohl Jan. 28--Consumers with relatively new cell phones -- in one case a phone right out of the box -- say sensors inside the devices appear to be [...]