eNatis Affecting Auto Insurance

For all of you who have been affected by the eNatis mess, you can breathe a little easier tonight. According to short term auto insurance ombudsman Brian Martin, auto insurance companies are going to have to work harder to be able to reject your claims. So those that have been driving on expired licenses because of it, can relax some.

Auto insurance companies are now going to have to show better proof before they reject a claim because the driver had a expired license when they were in the accident. Because of eNatis, they are not going to be able to just outright reject auto insurance claims because of expired licenses.

Martin said that the auto insurance companies were going to have to convince him that there was a really good reason for rejecting the auto insurance claim due to it. He said that if there was no license at all, then of course the claim was to be rejected. However, if a license exists and the auto insurance claim is rejected, they would probably not support the decision.

Other auto insurance companies have said something similar, in that they will be looking at those claims where the renewal was returned in a timely manner, and treating them more “sympathetically” because of it. Martin said it is important for drivers to renew their licenses well in advance of any expiration dates.

Lawyers say that the auto insurance companies are going to have a hard time telling them that they would not process a claim when the person did not have a license through no fault of their own.

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