Sit, lawmakers! Let Californians handle pet insurance on their own.

At least 10 different insurers offer coverage for dogs, cats and other pets in California. That’s more choices than Covered California, the state’s health insurance exchange, provides to (human) consumers.

Yet virtually every member of the California Assembly and Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones believe the pet insurance market is crying out for more state regulation. They’re backing a bill, AB 2056, that would require insurers to disclose more clearly the key provisions of the policies they’re selling.

Read more in the LA Times.