Owners of small buildings pleaded for higher increases, saying they are having a hard time.
Smaller employers, which have less leverage with insurance companies, often face higher increases.
He said even higher increases had been seen at the luxury end of the market.
Although Mr. Strasburgh said his group would appeal to the board for higher increases, he conceded, "I do not have high expectations" of succeeding.
But what about the millions of city residents who live in unstabilized apartments and are subject to much, much higher increases?
One small New Jersey company, GSA, raised premiums 15percentt, and several New Jersey insurers are asking regulators for even higher increases.
The review group recommended just a 1% increase in teacher pay from September, but said higher increases are needed in the future.
They agreed on an immediate 4.8percentt raise, coupled with even higher increases for mid-career soldiers and officers who have been leaving the military in droves in recent years.
"The world may be able to adapt to small changes in temperature change," writes Lord Turner, "but once higher increases are experienced damages will exceed the adaptive capacity of many biological, physical and social systems".
It also included higher increases in schools funding to cover the final years of the Gonski deal, which involved extra funding to ensure disadvantaged schools did not fall further behind.
"It's turned around and I think people are realizing that if they don't come in off the sidelines they're going to be paying much higher increases than they have in the recent past".
