Ma AG Martha Coakley has criticized a web site run by the state insurance department that is intended to inform state consumers about where to get the best rates for car insurance.   Coakley stated that the site is only 20 to 40 percent accurate. 

Coakley and consumer advocates have been very critical of the Bay State's move toward a deregulated system of auto insurance rates and the AG office and the Insurance Department, who the AG represents in litigation, have clashed repeatedly over the issue.

"The Web site as it is currently maintained is not only not helpful, it's misleading," Coakley said , and the Insurance Commissionsor responded that she would take Coakely's comments "very seriously" and would meet with her soon.

Today's dust up in another example of how an attorney general is able to take positions potentially adverse to agency "clients."