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More evidence that the world should be run by women:

Attorney General Martha Coakley is urging the state's automobile insurers to lower their 2008 rates, saying their initial filings last week included more than $200 million in extra profits and payments to agents that wouldn't have been allowed by regulators in previous years.

Coakley said the state's average premium would have fallen 11 percent if the extra profit and agent commissions were removed from the company filings.

[Coakley's] office issued a statement in which she said she was asking questions to make sure that information is available to all parties as the state transitions from a system where state regulators set all auto insurance rates to one where companies set their own rates subject to regulatory approval.

We've always loved Martha Coakley, despite her being a prosecutor, and not just because she shares a first name with Paul McCartney's old dog.

The truth is that, here, she's paid attention to something that the papers have missed, and that the governor has either ignored, or willfully colluded on.