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Summer left here in the Midwest of the USA - Chicago, temperatures are finally back in 70 years, we received a smattering rain, and school is back in session (God thank you!) - But d insurance news shows no sign of a cooling-off period for the fall. Indeed, with legislative meetings gearing to take things can still hot.Probably the biggest messages from the Great Lakes region was on August 18 Illinois Supreme Court fall of the State Farm decision Aftermarket parts. Long a point of dispute between industry, elements of bodywork and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), this decision long awaited return to the insurers may use the certification After Market parts to repair damaged vehicles. Insurers consider save millions in addition to price After Market parties. More importantly, a moral victory on the encounter shopping in class action litigation (Madison County, Illinois, has long been regarded as “judicial hellhole” of the reform of the American Tort Association) and freedom of consumer choice. In addition, in Illinois, Rod Blagojevich Dir signed a medical malpractice reform to identify. Say experts insurance, which is a double-edged sword, while they are satisfied with caps on noneconomic damages, they are concerned that med both writers must now try rate approval in a state open assessment has reigned since Ans.
And finally, Ohio, it is clear from the way to prove it has nothing to Chicago, when it comes to graft and corruption. In the course of an investigation into the disappearance of rare coins and loss of investment in assets of the State Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, and Bob Taft’s Dir guilty of judgement in a breach of ethics, Ohio certainly the headlines.
This is normal, with the plethora of stories of insurance fraud, the albernen (fictional Illinois Insurance Agent / company, alleging the table carnival in Kentucky and Nebraska) to health insurance ( Chicago company executive of raw materials, and not just torched his house insurance Bucks, but burned, his mother 90 years in the process). See this month in the fight against fraud Roundup for all the gory details.