Analysis: Wash. OIC conducts shaky consumer study to examine auto insurer steering
— March 4, 2019The Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner relied in part on a quantitatively lax study of consumers
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Washington Insurance Dept. tells state Rep. Kirby steering not a problem
— March 4, 2019The Washington Office of Insurance Commissioner last year told a state representative “steering”
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IIHS to add pedestrian protection to Top Safety Pick criteria
— March 4, 2019The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety will add pedestrian autobraking to its Top Safety Pick and
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Allstate lobbyist: Auto repairs hurting customers not systemic, no OEM procedure law needed
— March 1, 2019Allstate lobbyist Bruce Spencer said that while the story of Matthew and Marcia Seebachan represented
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Mont. procedures bill opponents: Owners should be able to get cars fixed wrong if they want
— February 28, 2019The Montana Retail Association chairwoman told lawmakers earlier this month that customers couldn’t
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Ga. man seeks class-action against State Farm, J.D. Power, Mitchell over total losses
— February 28, 2019A Columbus, Ga., man late last year sued State Farm, Mitchell and J.D. Power, claiming that the insurer’s
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Mont. repair procedure bill opponents: Protect shops unequipped to do the work
— February 27, 2019Despite collision repairers supporting the bill, representatives of two insurers and and a retail trade
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OEM repair procedures bill likely dead in Mont.
— February 27, 2019Despite the sponsor’s offer to remove a reference to parts, a Montana Senate committee voted 6-4
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ABAC, ASA on opposite sides of N.H. auto body repair procedures bill
— February 27, 2019The Auto Body Association of Connecticut’s recent opposition to a bill demanding insurers reimburse
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N.H. bill: Insurers must pay auto body shop its door mechanical rates; ABAC objects
— February 26, 2019A new bill in the New Hampshire House would force insurers to pay the mechanical door rate of any body
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