Consumers will be able to visit an Allstate agent in the Boston area for the first time in a generation.

The insurer left the Massachusetts auto insurance marketplace in 1987—fed up with the state's government-mandated ratemaking system.

Allstate wasn't the only insurer to leave. Less than 20 companies wrote auto insurance in Massachusetts before it switched to a "managed competition" system to allow companies to set their own rates.

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