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Relating to motor vehicle damage repair under motor vehicle insurance policies and deceptive acts or practices by motor vehicle insurers
Topics:InsuranceTransportation
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 20, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 21, 2019
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the repair of damage to a motor vehicle covered by a motor vehicle insurance policy and deceptive acts or practices by the insurer of the motor vehicle. The bill makes it an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance for an insurer, adjuster, appraiser, insurance producer, employee of an insurer, or any other representative of an insurer to unilaterally disregard a repair operation or cost identified by an estimating system which the insurer and a repair facility agreed to use to determine the cost of repairing a claimant’s motor vehicle.
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“Claimant” is defined in the bill as an insured person, or a third party making a claim against the insurer, seeking a repair of a motor vehicle. “Motor vehicle” and “repair facility” are defined in the bill.12.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 21, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part