I believe it's the other way around. I think the insurance companies have been behind this for years. They're the ones pushing the state agencies.
Absolutely.
In my home state of Michigan the insurance lobbyists have pressured the state for years to reduce deer. The DNR won’t admit it but it’s obvious that the insurance groups are behind a lot of it. You can’t drive a mile down a highway without seeing a dead deer on the side of the road. That’s big dollars to the insurance companies, they view deer as public enemy number one.