Indiana Governor Signs Ban on Accident Response Fees
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed the law this week that bans common pricing accidents reaction booking fees. The ban takes effect from 1 July 2008 in Indianapolis. Senate Enrolled Act 81, a bill from the insurance Institute of Indiana and other national and insurance groups, to the General Assembly on March 5. Indiana and Pennsylvania Missouri occurs as the first country to ban these fees.Â
“This is a great victory for the Hoosiers, the rest is simply that it is not a double taxation, the worst day,” Insurance Institute President Joe Yeager said. “The fact that in an accident is already serious enough. To receive an invoice from your city, once that the problem of links. ”
Supporters across the country has made these taxes, cities and municipalities as a solution to the funding woes of the police. Convinced that local suppliers for the body, to allow a settlement, the insurance companies are charged when the police came to the study of a road accident, but most insurance is not in the Indiana on the amount of these costs. In exchange, the price of a ahnungsloser citizens, the left lane with a bill of $ 200 - $ 500
According to the Institute, Griffith, in Lake County, was taken once the settlement by the cost schrillen Recovery Corp. of Dayton, Ohio, who will be charged out-of-towners in an accident with a fine of more than 200 dollars. After much control, the resolution of the council Griffith be eliminated. Several other cities and towns in Indiana have rejected the offer, costs and Recovery Corp.
Senator Dennis Kruse (R-Auburn), and Senator Mishler Ryan (Breman R), co-author of the bill, and the 2007 session, the author representative Ron Herrell (D-Kokomo) supported the bill and it was in its passage.
The General Assembly has confirmed this bill in the year 2007, but the bill was conducted by independent bodies to veto amendments that were added to the legislation.
Efforts by the Insurance Institute were also noted by the American Insurance Association (AIA), Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana, Inc., the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), ownership and Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI).
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