Auto-Montana directs insurers to follow Anti-Steering Law
Montana State Auditor John Morrison is licensed to remind all insurers for business in the state that a new law recently came into force for the protection Montanans the right to choose a car repair Body Shop after an accident. The law prohibits a practice known as the direction, if an insurer, a customer calls for the use of a special body-shop for estimates or repairs after an accident.
In 2007, legislative power by the Montana Senate Bill 204, a statute, a change in requirements car repair estimates. Each insurer that issues or renewed auto insurance in Montana will no longer be able to ask him to address a workshop for purposes of obtaining an estimate of damage from an accident car.
Before this change, an insurer, applicants can apply to comply with a shop in order to estimate, but not for the repair of the vehicle itself. Changing the law now prohibits an insurer to require the applicant to comply with a shop, even for the first estimate. With this amendment, the applicant has the right to decide where the vehicle for the first estimate for the repair and the vehicle.
The insurer is still entitled to an expert or an adjustment screw inspect the vehicle for repair supplies, Morrison’s office said. At the request of consumers, the insurer may be a list of repairs for the repair itself, but the consumer reserves the right to choose where repairs will be done.
“These laws have been for the protection of consumers the right to choose. Montanans need to know that the absolute right to go the store of their choice for estimates and repairs after an accident,” said Morrison. “The damage and accidents insurers, who have not yet updated its management practices claims, to ensure that, in Montana, in accordance with the law nine antisteering would be well advised to do so and without delay necessary changes.
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