Philadelphia Crime Has Forced Insurance Rates ‘Through the Roof’ and Is Leading to Closures, Business Owners Say

‘It’s going to come to the point where franchises or small-business people won’t be able to afford insurance,’ one business owner tells the Sun.

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As shoplifting and lootings overtake Philadelphia, business owners say insurance prices are becoming astronomical — if they’re able to find an insurance provider at all. 

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