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A new Illinois bill would forbid insurers from requesting deviations from OEM repair procedures aside from parts or ADAS calibration tools. The Alliance of Automotive Providers of Illinois is advocating for House Bill 3133, that is nearly identical to 2021’s House Bill 4916. That predecessor failed to go anywhere, but...

A new Texas bill would require auto insurance policies to not only carry appraisal clauses but make the process more cost-effective for consumers trying to use RTA to treat a short-pay. If the right-to-appraisal process produces a total loss or repair cost valuation $1 greater than the insurer’s last offer,...

A sweeping auto insurance reform measure approved by the Texas House Insurance Committee in 2021 is back for that Lone Star State’s 2021 legislative session. House Bill 1131 contains virtually identical language towards the substitute version of HB 1348 the committee reported favorably inside a 6-1 vote. But the 2021...

The Texas Department of Insurance on Monday confirmed that auto insurers aren’t necessary to offer Texans an appraisal clause choice to resolve a dispute over repair bill reimbursement. The agency also has rewritten its web site to remove what at least as late as Friday had been advice to people...

The Iowa Collision Repair Association notched up a legislative victory this session using the passage and enactment of the bill raising the harm threshold for a salvage title. “We wrote that bill,” ICRA lobbyist Scott Weiser said Tuesday of Senate File 230, which Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds into law on...

California Bureau of Automotive Repair Executive Director Patrick Dorais on Thursday discussed topics like customer communication, vehicle technology and teardowns throughout a VeriFacts Guild 21 webinar appearance. Communication Dorais’ agency regulates about 5,000 auto body shops in what’s arguably America’s most significant collision market. He said the California collision market...

Legislation related to OEM procedures, labor rate surveys and DRP network promotion produced extensive discussion Monday about how exactly direct repair programs operate in Texas. The House Insurance Committee conversation Monday included a representative for various major insurers declaring their DRP shops are told “‘do what must be done'” for...

A bill amending New York’s shop choice law to preserve collision repairer autonomy on part selection has returned for any fifth legislative try. Assembly Bill 6902 would append Insurance Law 2610 to report that first-party collision and comprehensive insurers could not “require a repair facility to utilize a specific vendor...

Despite overwhelming support from lawmakers in 2021, a bill promoting paint and materials guidelines and scanning and calibration OEM repair procedures was shot down by a New Hampshire House committee this month. The House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee deemed House Bill 310 “Inexpedient to Legislate” within an 18-0 vote...

An insurance trade group including major national carriers on Monday told Texas lawmakers it had no issue with the idea of requiring OEM repair procedures. But the Texas Coalition for reasonable Insurance Solutions still opposed House Bill 1131 on grounds including a desire for parts competition, Executive Director Beaman Floyd...