Tighter Auto Insurance Laws Requested

A Connecticut association wants it made perfectly clear that they are not going to settle for auto insurance companies violating any more laws or rules. They say that the auto insurance companies currently pick and choose which cars they will fix and which ones they wont, and they want legislators to say that they should not be able to made random determinations.

The Auto Body Association of Connecticut is behind the request, and they are requesting that new laws be drawn up that would prevent them from choosing which cars are fixable and where they would be fixed. They say that companies like Progressive are “coercing” their customers to go to places that they say, and are not giving them the opportunity to choose for themselves.

They say that the laws that dictate how things are to be handled are inadequate and need to be changed. They also say that their auto insurance claims center regularly takes cars apart to see what is wrong with them and that they do not have the legal right to do so. They say that auto body places have to get licensed and pay fees to have the ability to do that, and that the claims centers do not have the necessary paperwork completed and filed.

Progressive says that the accusations are exaggerated and inflammatory against the company. They say that they only take pieces of the cars apart to try and save their customers time and effort when trying to get a claim filed. The association says that the car insurance company is using non-original parts as well, which poses a safety problem for owners.

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