R.I. Gen. Laws § 27-44-1: Purposes.

The purposes of this chapter are:

(1) To prohibit price fixing agreements and other anticompetitive behavior by insurers;

(2) To protect policyholders and the public against the adverse effects of excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory rates;

(3) To promote price competition among insurers to provide rates that are responsive to competitive market conditions;

(4) To provide regulatory assurance that price competition exists;

(5) To improve availability, fairness, and reliability of insurance;

(6) To authorize essential cooperative action among insurers in the ratemaking process and to regulate that activity to prevent practices that tend to substantially lessen competition or create a monopoly;

(7) To encourage the most efficient and economic marketing practices; and

(8) To foster competitive insurance markets.